Appalling though it may seem, church leaders at the highest levels are occasionally mistaken sometimes dangerously and hurtfully so. If you mindlessly adhere to the opinions of others, you are in danger. Yes, it is. One reason is that arriving at truth mindlessly would be mere luck, with no reasonable hope that one s luck would continue. The other reason is that truth is a thing of beauty to be savored, loved, and cherished.
Truth is too important to be casually, mindlessly, taken for granted.
It is, after all, something that millions have died for. Not many of us are Augustines or Einsteins, and the point is not that we should try to become something we are not. But we should mobilize the brain power that the Lord has entrusted to us and seek, in His strength, to develop increasing powers of discernment. We must become, in Ellen White s words, thinkers, and not mere reflectors of other men s thought. Here are some things that one might do toward this goal 1.