THE FOURTH MARK OF A COMPLETE CHRISTIAN IS THAT HE GROWS IN CHRISTLIKE LIFESTYLE. A Christian is measured, not primarily by what he knows or what he does, but by who he is. It is not acceptable to know things and do things, but have no concern...
THE THIRD MARK OF A COMPLETE CHRISTIAN IS THAT HE GROWS IN BIBLICAL KNOWLEDGE. Knowledge isn’t everything, but everything rests on knowledge. Therefore a complete Christian masters the Bible so well that the Bible masters him. Jesus said “You shall know the truth, and the truth will set...
THE SECOND MARK OF A COMPLETE CHRISTIAN IS THAT HE WORSHIPS GOD CORPORATELY. While we are to worship God individually, as we saw last week, the Christian life was never meant to be lived alone. Therefore, a complete Christian worships God with other Christians, and integrates...
THE FIRST MARK OF A COMPLETE CHRISTIAN IS THAT HE WORSHIPS GOD INDIVIDUALLY A rich Christian experience requires a vital inner life. Therefore, a complete Christian must spend adequate time cultivating his relationship with the Lord, his knowledge of the Scripture, and his familiarity with biblical...
THERE ARE 7 MARKS THAT CHARACTERIZE A COMPLETE CHRISTIAN Shortly after graduating from seminary, I was teaching at a Christian college in Arizona. I had the opportunity to lead a young man to Christ, and when he finished praying, he looked up at me in transparent...
EZRA 7:10 GIVES US THREE PRINCIPLES OF SPIRITUAL GROWTH Years ago, I sat in a seminary classroom listening to master teacher, Dr. Howard Hendricks, expound on a passage that few of us even knew was in the Bible: Ezra 7:10, which says, “For Ezra had set...
THERE ARE TWO DECISIONS THAT DETERMINE WHERE WE END UP! We saw last week that we become what we behold. That is, we inevitably become what we let into our minds and what we think about. Therefore, there are two subsequent steps we must take. First, we must...
WHY WE MUST STRATEGICALLY GUARD OUR MINDS Every moment of every day, something in our soul is being fed and something is being starved. What we feed grows. What we starve shrinks. As a result, we inevitably become what we let into our minds and what...
Electronic media may present the greatest practical challenge for discipleship today. The presence, power and perversion of much of electronic output certainly creates unprecedented challenges. Regarding the presence of electronic media, it is now possible to be in contact with electronic communication 24 hours a day....
Research shows that the mind retains more from a summary than a full presentation. A 1982 study by Carnegie-Mellon University demonstrated that learners retain more from a tight summarization of a subject than they do a full presentation. For this reason, when we teach less, learners may...