If you know Christ as Savior, you are called to teach! Not formally, but influentially! The Law of Activity says "Maximum learning is always the result of maximum involvement." Involvement; engagefulness; doing! It means obedience to Christ; being a doer of the Word, not just a hearer!
The Law of Education is that the effective teacher KNOWS the people he or she is endeavoring to teach. He or she is about the student, not about how wonderful he or she is or how wonderful the teaching. Jesus was all about the Law of Education!
The law of the teacher states that the effective teacher always teaches from the overflow of a FULL LIFE! This, according to Jesus and Howard Hendricks in his book "Teaching to Change Lives". Full? Full of what?
Do you have a passion to communicate? Communication is a part of communing with God and others. This series is about teaching. Every born-twice believer in Christ is a teacher; not formally, but in the sense of living out loud how Christ is transforming their soul. Many believers have lost or never connected with Christ to gain this passion. What about you?
Proverbs 2:1-5 contains the dynamic counsel of a father (Solomon) to his child. There are 5 dynamic character qualities that will launch our young people to a life of eternal significance. Listen and be inspired by the Word of God breathed out by the Holy Spirit!
If purity is having 'ONE THING PRESENT', then what is that 'one thing' in a pure heart? Hope motivates a purity of heart that makes us desire to be more like Jesus... because... that is where we are headed!
Our hope in Christ is tied to our willingness to embrace our peculiarity in this world as followers of Christ. What does that look like? What should that peculiarity look like? It should look like Jesus!
Peculiar means 'unusual' and 'unique'. The Bible calls believers out of the peculiar and strange of this world, which is a competition to be noticed... to a peculiar that is like Jesus. Jesus was peculiar because He wasn't about Himself; He was about His Father, and about people. While we wait for our hope in Christ to be realized, we are called to be a peculiar people... peculiar like Jesus!
What if THE WORST thing you could imagine happened to you? Would your HOPE IN CHRIST sustain you? Or would you blame God and run? The Bible says what happened to Israel coming out of Egypt was an example for us to learn from. So let's look at their story through the lense of hope! They faced many impossible situations. What can we learn from them in the midst of this COVID 19 crisis?
In this Corona Crisis, we need some hope! Well, you won't find it in politics or media or a better self-esteem. Hope is a person. Hope is a trustful expectation in that person! His name is Jesus! And He has a purpose and a plan that we need to know and surrender too! In Him, you will find not only hope, but you will find yourself!