A Compelling Testimony: Maintaining a Disciplined Walk, Christlike Character, and Godly Relationships as God's Servant

Ses s i on 4: Cu l t i vat i ng Our Commun i on: The I nward Di sc i p l i nes 161

b. Prov. 24.23 – These also are sayings of the wise. Partiality in judging is not good.

c. James 2.1 – My brothers, show no partiality as you hold the faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory.

d. James 2.4 – Have you not then made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?

e. James 2.9 – But if you show partiality, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.

D. Practical Concerns

1. Embrace the Christian call to seek, believe in, and love the truth, John 8.31-32

2. Affirm the fact that “all truth is God’s truth,” that is, anything that is actually true finds its root in the God of truth, Jer. 10.10 – But the Lord is the true God; he is the living God and the everlasting King. At his wrath the earth quakes, and the nations cannot endure his indignation.

3. Review the process of how claims are formed, supported, defended, and overturned. Know how arguments work .

4. Monitor the kinds of things that you allow to enter into your mind, and seek to obey Philippians 4.8