Objection: “But you don’t have an open mind!”
Ever heard it before? Well, it won’t be the first or last time if you are involved in trying to be biblical in your counseling. Let’s see how you might answer.
Response: Right. And neither do you. Your very objection indicates that you have a position on the matter. As a matter of fact, those who most vigorously advocate open-mindedness often viciously attack others who believe in being close-minded. It is logically impossible to hold an open-minded position with conviction. That is, in itself, a contradiction. Either one has no convictions on the subject (which isn’t open-mindedness, but simple lack of conviction), or he holds firmly to a position for or against open-mindedness (and in neither case can he be open-minded toward the opposite position).”
An open mind is like an open window; you have to put in screens to keep the bugs out! That is the way that a professor in one seminary puts it. He means, of course, that a person without convictions is open to everyone else’s opinions (no matter how outrageous). Many who boast of having an open mind simply don’t have convictions about anything much. As the
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