Learning about Discernment

Lu Yunxi, Assistant Professor of New Testament Hong Kong is currently going through a turbulent period, and the search for discernment has never been more urgent. Amid political uncertainty, social unrest, and social divisions, the challenge facing Hong Kong Christians is to make informed and wise decisions in an atmosphere of instability, mutual distrust, fear, and misinformation. Decide. Discernment is the ability to make appropriate decisions; and Christian discernment is the awareness that the best decisions we can make in any situation are those that closely follow God's heart. In these confusing times, it has never been more important to hear God’s voice amid the chaos. ...

Deng Shaoguang's Christian Thought (Theology and Culture) teaches that Christian discernment begins with discerning "who Jesus really is"...