Dangers for Followers of Christ

I have had a heavy heart the past few years for the apparent weakness of the professing Christians of this country to fall into a major error in regards to rightly discerning good from evil. This error is the inability or unwillingness to critically examine issues or material in the light of God's word and of reason. I find increasingly that the church insulates itself from having to think about issues by clinging to some approved teacher's writings or spoken opinion and refusing to allow the mind to critically engage. Let me give two examples of this.

Suppose an average American baptist is one day challenged to read a pamphlet about the "filling of the Holy Ghost." In my experience, most average baptists would immediately disregard this and refuse to even think about the possibility of being wrong about their theology of the Holy Spirit. Their inability to think critically is suffocating them spiritually. I sincerely believe that this happens in some measure to every Christian; to the extent that we rid ourselves of of this, we are most likely better off as believers.
To be fair and to avoid unnecessary criticism, let me give another example. Suppose a pentacostal is given a phamplet that addresses the need for church order and talks about how tongues are a sign for unbelievers. Once again, in my experience, the pentacostal will tend to disengage before he even starts reading the phamplet.
The correct way for each of these individuals to approach their respective issues is to first examine the writings by scripture. Once those parameters are set up, the second task is to reason through what is given. Allow me to give a third example.
If someone should come to me and say, "The moon is made of real cheese!" I could choose to not even think about that person's assertion. He's wrong, turn the mind off. The correct action and godly action (all else held constant) I believe is to examine his claim. Really? What does God have to say about your issue?Why do you think so? What evidence do you have? What reasoning can you give? To the best of my knowledge, I think this person's claim would show to be false. But I try not to start out with that mind-suffocating conclusion; it is best shown by taking the evidence while thinking critically and scripturally.

If we the church could stand on the powerful Word of God and reason critically, it would eliminate so much false teaching and destruction in our lives. I challenge the readers of this article who are believers to make a conscious effort to change in this regard