Imitation of the Wise is True Independence

“In Scrpiture, learning is profoundly incarnational. But we have been taught (in countless ways) that true knowledge is abstract and disembodied. When people begin to self-consciously imitate their parents and elders, it is not long before the charges of ‘mind-control’ and ‘cult’ begin to fly. Part of the godly fruit of incarnational imitation is like-mindedness, …