Sunday, May 2, 2010

Week 5 Day 2: Doing Things Your Own Way

God created the physical body to be good, but when people sinned, the body was affected. Although the body itself is not evil in itself, it is weak and susceptible to the flesh (the sinful nature). God expects you to honor Him through your physical body and to decline to let the flesh, or the sinful nature, take over. The body has the capacity to do good if the flesh is not in control.

One way to keep your body from being susceptible to un-Christlike ways is to know who you are in Christ, to stand firm in that identity, and to share your convictions with others. You grow in your faith when you learn to give your Christian testimony. You always need to be prepared to give witness to your life as a Christian by sharing your testimony. Your testimony is your script for witnessing to others your changed life in Christ; to ‘witness’ is to ‘give evidence’.

Your testimony should include four facts about your conversion that should be shared with unbelievers.

1. My life and attitudes before I followed Christ
2. How I realized that God was speaking to me
3. How I became a Christian
4. What being a Christian means to me

Daily Thoughts: What did you get from today’s study?

Start to prepare an outline of your testimony, by answering the four questions above.

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