The Andy Manning Blog

How can you make good decisions?  This is a highly practical question, especially when it comes to decisions like where to go to college, what to major in, which job to take, who to date, who to marry, when to have kids, how many kids to have, how to educate your kids, etc.   The traditional way that evangelical Christians have been taught to approach this issue is to ask, "What is God's will for me in this particular decision?"  While that is an important question to ask, what it usually means is that when facing a big decision, you should ask God to show you what to do, and then expect for Him to tell you.  How will He tell you?  Through His still small voice, or inner impressions, or inward pressure, or inward urgings, or a guiding impulse.   This all sounds very spiritual, but there are a couple of huge problems with this method of decision making.  First, it is unbiblical.  The Bible does not tell us to make decisions this way, nor does it have examples of people mak