Are you a YouTube commercial,
advertising your beliefs?
Give me a minute to explain.
Sports teams and race car drivers wear the names of advertisers on their uniforms. And I wonder what kind of advertisements see on us?
How have we been influenced by groups, organizations, institutions, or communities?
How do our views of life intersect with how we have been trained, mentored, educated, or directed?
How do movies, music, art, or reading mold our minds?
How does the time, place, culture, or context of our person subtly transform us?
How do our emotions, will, or the threads of our interior person impact our motivations and decisions?
We must not kid ourselves. The race car drivers’ uniform has nothing on us. We wear the advertisements of one hundred influencers. Do not think that we stand unsullied by the marketing from the latest logo.
If we want to be our own person, we must first answer “Who owns our person?”
Thanks for spending this minute with me, Dr. Mark Eckel.
Mark Eckel (MA English, ThM Old Testament, PhD Social Science Research) is Executive Director of the Center for Biblical Integration, Liberty University.
“Give Me a Minute” is an ongoing effort to simply, clearly, and quickly explain aspects of true Truth.
Gratitude, as always, to my longtime friend, videographer, and tech guru Josh for his continued service.