How are we to live as followers of Christ Jesus? Discipleship is a lifelong commitment to follow Jesus by embracing His teaching and living in obedience to it. This content emphasizes the significance of moral integrity, self-reflection and community responsibility. It covers themes such as the importance of maintaining a virtuous character while warning against pride and the pitfalls of worldly desires.
“The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is good, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness.” Matthew 6:22-23
“And why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye?” Matthew 7:3
The Lesson of Thyatira: Do Not Tolerate the Unrepentant
“You must not associate with anyone who claims to be a brother or sister but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or slanderer, a drunkard or swindler. Do not even eat with such people.” 1 Corinthians 5:11
“For an overseer, as God’s steward, must be above reproach. He must not be arrogant or quick-tempered or a drunkard or violent or greedy for gain, but hospitable, a lover of good, self-controlled, upright, holy, and disciplined.” Titus 1:7-8, ESV
“The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.” Jeremiah 17:9
“Now set your heart and your soul to seek the Lord your God.” 1 Chronicles 22:19
Who Are “the Least of These My Brethren?”
“Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me.” Matthew 25:40
Humility in Worship: Emulating Christ’s Example
“Everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.” Luke 18:14
In Christ: Fostering Church Unity and Fellowship
“For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.” Galatians 3:26-28
Navigating Friction, Overcoming Pride & Embracing Responsibility
“If anyone teaches otherwise and does not consent to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which accords with godliness, he is proud, knowing nothing, but is obsessed with disputes and arguments over words, from which come envy, strife, reviling, evil suspicions, useless wranglings of men of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. From such withdraw yourself.” 1 Timothy 6:3-5
“Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her.” John 8:7
The Dilemma of Tolerance vs. Exaltation
“If it is possible, as much as depends on you, live peaceably with all men.” Romans 12:18
“Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father but is of the world. And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.” 1 John 15-17
The Righteous Will Answer 