"People don't have ideas, ideas have people."
Carl Jung's profound insight is the sort whose application spreads ever further the more you think on it.
It strikes me that for the preacher, there's a two-sided application.
A preacher should:
1 - Seek to understand which foreign ideas already own a part of your congregation's heart and mind. What philosophical barnacles are already attached to the hull of their "gospel". (There's a real possibility in many congregations of more barnacle than hull.)
2 - Work towards the grand "idea" of Christ owning every member individually and the congregation as a whole. If Jesus is presented in His full glory and splendor, He is an "idea" worthy of taking captive every thought, word, and deed.
Logically, it seems to me that #1 has to be explored thoroughly before #2 can hope to be a possibility.
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