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

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A Compe l l i ng Tes t imony

4. How might I help my students become more free and creative in expressing their joy in Christ in their own personal walks with God? What steps might I suggest to my family or our church that could cause us to celebrate the Lord’s goodness in our lives?

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Prayer and Affirmation to God

The pastor was rather disappointed that things were not “happening” in his church and so he asked one of the leading deacons, “What is wrong with our church? Is it ignorance or apathy?” The deacon responded, “I don’t know, and I don’t care.”

May God grant us the mind to know and the heart to care about the people of God, the Church, and to do so in such a way that we may be moved to discipline ourselves to strengthen her in every way, for his glory. Amen.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy. ~ 1 Peter 2.9-10