Emphasis Preaching Journal

When Gordon Allport gave us his criteria for mature religion, he indicated that such religion is always heuristic. By that he meant that religiously healthy people are always seeking for more light and accept the fact that there is an inevitable tentativeness about faith. The mature person of faith is always open to new ideas and finds in challenges to faith not threat but promise. This is very much in keeping with the call to wisdom issued in the book of Proverbs. It was Peter Abe lard who said: "The first key to wisdom is assiduous and frequent questioning.