1. “I know, my God, that you examine our hearts and rejoice when you find integrity there. You know I have done all this with good motives, and I have watched your people offer their gifts willingly and joyously.” 2. “Then the Lord asked Satan, “Have you noticed my servant Job? He is the finest man in all earth. He is blameless—a man of complete integrity. He fears God and stays away from evil. And he has maintained his integrity,…
The Bible has a lot to say about profound respectability, trustworthiness, and carrying on with a virtuous life. Additionally, The Holy book discusses earnestness, faithfulness, compliance, character, and consistency under tension. These characteristics are altogether essentials for Christian leadership. Prerequisite for taken leadership within the Church centers severally on these characters. Consequently, I mean, an open door to servant leadership is about spiritual integrity, honesty, and living a blameless life. The focal point of Christian leadership must be Christ’s mind:…
James Davison Hunter said: “We say we want a renewal of character in our day but don’t really know what we ask for. To have a renewal of character is to have a renewal of a creedal order that constrains, limits, binds, obligates, and compels. This price is too high for us to pay. We want character but without unyielding conviction; we want strong morality but without the emotional burden of guilt or shame; we want virtue but without particular…
1. “But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. By canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross.” 2. “He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed. For you were straying like sheep, but have now…
Have you not heard that what human beings need is once-for-all major Surgery? What of sympathy? Yes, for compassion or forgiveness to happen, we must have access to the Throne of Mercy! A medical procedure that is only possible via The Cross. Put, we need major surgery for human beings to return to God – this is what Christ did on the Cross. If sympathy is all that individuals require, the cross of Christ is idiocy, and there is positively…
Oswald Chambers said: “If sympathy is all that human beings need, then the cross of Christ is an absurdity, and there is absolutely no need for it. What the world needs is not “a little bit of love,” but major surgery. If you think you are helping lost people with your sympathy and understanding, you are a traitor to Jesus Christ. You must have a right-standing relationship with him yourself, and pour your life out in helping others in his…
1. “We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.” 2. “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come” 3. “For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God’s law;…
Usually better, or not better in some views, but new absolutely. For example, John the Baptist did not come upon the scene to present himself as some great leader. While his spirit, words, and tenet of repentance led to respect, he had no intention of promoting himself to a unique position. Dressed in camel hair and eating locusts and wild honey, he was more interested in doing good than appearing great. How critical that thought and action are in modern-day…
Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt said: “It is not at all a question of being better than you were before. The new life means that forces for life can now be seen within you, that something of God and of heaven, something holy, can grow in you. It means we can actually see that it is no longer the sinful desires that have power, but Christ’s resurrection and His life, which leads you toward wholeness.”
1. “But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” 2. “By canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross.” 3. “And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.” 4. “He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we…