Too Heavenly Minded

I keep coming across false dichotomies. Here's a false proverb: "Too heavenly minded to be of earthly good". It's false because an intimate relationship with the God who is love and who commands us to love our neighbour is exactly the sort of thing that will cause us to be of earthly good.

The Christian world is replete with false dichotomies that set studying the Bible/proclaiming the gospel over against something else, classically love or social action. But the Bible does not say we should chose between these things - it commands them all!

Before we start defending the Bible over against something else, we must open it and see what it says.