Moreland makes some excellent observations about the inability of many Christians to think well. However, he also seems to imply that our reason is not as affected by the Fall, placing it above revelation, instead of making it revelation's servant. He does not believe that the Holy Spirit illuminates Scripture for us, helping us understand the meaning of it. "Rather, He speaks to the believer's soul, convicting, comforting, opening up applications of His truth through His promptings." He goes on to say, "The Spirit helps us apply the significance of a text, but He does not teach us the cognitive meaning of the text. He leaves that up to us." The way to best understand Scripture is to develop your mind and become skilled in hermeneutics, and evidently he believes we can do this without the assistance of the Holy Spirit. Moreland's chapters on the importance of studying logic and evidence that God exists and the historical truth of the Scriptures were helpful, but his invitation to make an experiment of salvation was disturbing. "If you have not already done so, you should perform a devotional experiment in which you place your trust in Jesus, cast yourself on Him and His kindness, and seek Him with all your heart. Begin to attempt to do what He taught, and you will begin to see the power of His presence and kingdom manifest itself in, through, and around you. This will be the final confirmation that a life of discipleship unto the luminous Nazarene is, indeed, entrance into the Way, the Truth, and the Life." No mention of sin, the atonement, the power of the Holy Spirit to open up our eyes to our need for a Savior. He ends the book with suggestions for preserving the life of the mind in our churches and asserts that "the emergence of the senior pastor in the local church is one of the factors that has most significantly undermined the development of healthy churches." His suggestions include having only a plurality of elders instead of a senior pastor, establishing a large church library, and offering courses that would equip those in the body to best use their intellectual gifts.