I love questions. Well, most of the time.
Questions help us think thoroughly, consider our blind spots, reach firm conclusions, define ourselves, actualize our values, and live with intentionality. Questions, often more than statements, facilitate learning. Questions are effectual in so many ways, yet they can be powerfully dangerous.
The simple yet ghastly profound process of questioning “why” we do things can cause us to reaffirm our values as we realign our thoughts and behaviors. It is easy to live in cruise control. Factors like familiarity, comfort, personal routine, ease, and common practice can keep us from asking the important questions that will challenge, refine and improve us. Questions are good.
Before reaching a hard-fast conclusion about the issue at hand it is important to consider context and influences. Surrounding factors like timing, location, intentions, agendas, motives, and desirable results, etc can come to light when honest and objective questions are asked. Questions can help us reach the wisest conclusions and most solid plans (Luke 14:28-33). Questions are good.
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© 2011 Randy Cobb
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