SELF 'IN CHRIST"/ "IN CHRIST" SELF Beginnings One thought was to make the title "Selfies IN CHRIST with looks at the image of the character and personality of self more than the appearance of self in a photo. However, having said that it should quickly be said as did one expert, you are a body and you are a soul! Essentially the messages of the Bible on Self, most often called in society personality or character, are the same for youth and adults. In case the Bible verse of the YOUTH IN CHRIST image to the left is too small, it is repeated here, from I Timothy 4:12, let there be no discrimination between youth and adults when it comes to being a good example for all believers--female youth or male youth {the Bible is generic for male and female}: You can see some similarities between the Bible recommened Christian examples in word, conversation, love, spirit, faith, and purity with the Religious Dimensions of personality of Oates: meaning, direction, balance, interpersonal, maturity, integration; or it might be argued that those "goals of man's becoming" in character are word, conversation, love, spirit, faith, and purity correlated with those of the above religious dimensions of personality. It is easy to misunderstand Spurgeon in the quote from him to the left but among other things he is saying: (1) more of Christ in my life and less of me; and (2) no doubt having in mind what Paul wrote in Galatians 6:14: "But God forbid that I should boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world." All these thoughts and quotes are thought provoking for Christian thinkers of wisdom; but only the BEGINNINGS of Bible sessions on self, personality,character, "IN CHRIST" and the religious dimensions of personality. One apparent problem with being yourself in this world is that "the world passeth away, and the lust thereof; but he that doeth the will of God abideth forever." (I John 2:15-17) You know, Brad Pitt quoted this near the end of the movie "Fury". According to Jesus, your light and your salt is your good works: "Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father which is in heaven." (Matthew 5:16) Preliminary Progress Chart for Bible sessions on "In Christ" Self I. History of Man and Worship. 2. Bible on "In Christ". 3. BIC (Before In Christ) and AIC (After In Christ) of Ephesians. 4. Religious Dimensions of Man's Personality. |
Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity. (I Timothy 4:12) |
Self "In Christ" www.biblecombibleman.com/SelfInChrist.html |
Christ and Self-Fulfillment 1. God chose us In Christ from before the foundation of the earth in order to be What? 2. "To Be" as chosen to Be, What and How? |