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The Christian Walk not Talk
by The Disciples Corner

next entry: Holiness is What you Want in Me..What Kind?

Represent Christ (Being Christ Like)

02/20/2009

If someone were to ask you what a Christian looks like how would you describe that person? You might say that he or she is a person who has read the Bible, who attends Bible Studies, goes to church, wears certain clothes and adheres to the teachings of a church. You might even go as far as to say that a person who is a Christian would be a person who is charitable, helps others, takes care of the needs of the elderly and the sick, and maybe someone who is involved in church evangelism or church leadership.  While all of these are things that might point people to what a Christian should or does look like, the one thing that speaks louder than any words, that one thing that gives our testimony creditability more than our good work, or service is to be Christ like. What does that mean? It means that when others see you they should see Jesus Christ and his attributes in you? 

 
So let me ask this very candid question. If there was not a Bible to be found how would your life represent Jesus Christ?  Church Swindoll makes an interesting comment concerning how the world examines Christianity stating, Like it or not, the world watches us with the scrutiny of a seagull peering at a shrimp in shallow water. The believer is under constant surveillance. That's our number one occupational hazard. And when we speak of our Saviour and the life he offers, everything we say is filtered through that which has observed.  

What is result of this lack of an urgency to be Holy before a corrupt world? What is the contrast of a life claiming to be a Christian and those who live life as a Christian? Hudson Tyler said, The inconsistencies of Christian people, who while professing to believe their Bibles, were yet content to live life just as they would if there was no such Book, had been one of the strongest arguments of my skeptical companions.

But prove yourselves doers of the word, and not merely hearers who delude themselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror; for once he has looked at himself and gone away, he has immediately forgotten what kind of person he was. (James 1:22-24)

Finally we should be heartbroken that when a man who many consider to be one of the greatest men of his faith was asked why he was not a Christian his reported response was, "If it weren't for the Christians, I would have become one." When asked what we could do to influence the world towards Christianity he said, first that Christians should act like Jesus Christ. What we notice is that he didn't say preach at them though preaching is an avenue God uses, he said, act like Jesus in other words be Christ like. Jesus said to Peter the fisherman, Come 1 follow me and I will 2 make you fishers of men. The order that Jesus teaches is important as he calls man to follow him, to be like him, to live like he lived, to love like he loved and to be holy as he was holy. It is then that we can become the fishers of the souls of man and fulfill the great commission given to the disciples, "Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you.

Are you a good representative of Jesus Christ? Do you feel the need to be his ambassador? Are you willing to do what it takes to be his disciple?

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