01/21/25 CULTURED BEHAVIOR
Cultural or cultured behavior or exercising social graces and manners is part of the Christian witness. It is part of personal redemption and lift.
Just as growth in grace and knowledge is part of the Christian experience, likewise developing relational skills and personality winsomeness is part of being an effective witness and worker for Christ.
In fact, being conformed to the image of Christ and nurturing and practicing humility, kindness, and compassion, along with the Fruit of the Spirit, equips and enables us to be effective ambassadors of God.
It takes commitment and practice and sacrifice to become the spiritually refined and productive workers that God wants us to be.
This is part of our discipling experience. God takes us as we are, but He doesn't leave us where He finds us. Christian transformation is a whole person reality.
Discipleship involves putting off the old man and putting on the new man. Some of our transformation is instantaneous and some is progressive and all of it is intentional. Christ-likeness is no accident, and it is not optional for the true follower of Christ.
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