Going up changes your perspective.

Ruminating thoughts coming from introspection pull you down into the details that enslave your vision.

Feelings associated with these thoughts deepen fear, enlarge hesitation, corner you in isolation. The beginning of anxious profile starts here.

“Set your minds (Gr. Phroneo) on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.” Col 3:2-3

When Paul says ‘to set our minds’ he uses Greek word that meant more than ‘mind’ and included the heart. As the desert fathers would later describe ‘mind in heart’ which includes deeply seated feelings, visceral reactions surrounding thoughts and understanding.

The West tends to concentrate on the mind, treating heart only as the seat of feelings which need to be controlled. But they need rather to be led by reason, informed, shaped by the truth, embraced personally and confronted with the vision of God for you. The renewal of mind starts with putting it in your heart and living in freedom from that place of continual encounter with the Spirit of God.,

The Christian East retained the concept of heart that we desperately need to rediscover to attain happiness = life blessed in Jesus.

“ Ultimately. It is difficult to get the balance of mind, heart and body just right. (…) The unity of mind and heart, of a mind stationed in the heart and focused on the name of Christ, as far more than a matter of having the right attitude. Rather, it is a hard-fought, spiritual force-against-spiritual force, bodily achievement.”
- Timothy G. Patitsas

In School of the Heart, we aim to go up, to change your perspective from above. Our focus is on integrating mind into your heart, so you can experience wholeness and live with a perspective of heaven, bringing the Kingdom mindedness down. Life in the Spirit is living fully, radically committed to a lifestyle of trusting Jesus.