“My counsel for you is simple and straightforward: Just go ahead with what you’ve been given. You received Christ Jesus, the Master; now live him. You’re deeply rooted in him. You’re well constructed upon him. You know your way around the faith. Now do what you’ve been taught. School’s out; quit studying the subject and start living it! And let your living spill over into thanksgiving” (Colossians 2:6-7, The Message).

That’s it. Maybe we don’t need another Bible study. Maybe we don’t need another book on Christian living. Maybe what we need is to start living what we already know. There is such a thing as knowing too much if it doesn’t make it’s way from your head to your heart and then to your hands and feet.

Don’t get me wrong. I’m all about the next Bible study and the next book. But it’s all for naught if it doesn’t translate into a different way of living. The problem with the way we learn is that we were trained to study in order to pass tests and then immediately forget what we studied. But that leads to knowledge of useless information instead of wisdom.

What we need is to learn in such a way that we rewire our actions and habits. Better yet, we learn to grow and be more like Jesus. We learn not to obtain information but to be renewed and transformed and enabled to obey what we know. Then we are ready for more.