Tag Archives: discipleship

Reading:

1 Peter 1:13-25

To be nonconformed, be conformed.

Can you explain that statement?

Maybe this will help:

“As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance” (1 Peter 1:14).

Now get personal with five more questions to chew:

  1. After what or whom do I model my life?
  2. Have I excused or ignored any unholiness in me recently?
  3. How practical and liveable is my hope?
  4. Am I taking an active, purposeful role in the purifying of my soul?
  5. Just how eternal is my day-to-day value system?

Over six years ago I wrote The Christian’s Lively Hope (based in part on 1 Peter 1:13-21).

[The Scriptures say in 1 Peter 1:24 -- All the glory of man]
from 1 Peter 1:24

Reading:

Mark 10:17-31

Ah, me. This passage, this verse, this lesson.

“Then Jesus beholding him loved him, and said unto him, One thing thou lackest: go thy way…give to the poor…and come, take up the cross, and follow me” (Mark 10:21).

This passage is the International Bible Study for this coming Sunday (October 25, 2009).

So chew these questions:

  1. How committed am I to living by God’s commands and precepts?
  2. Would I allow “one thing” to keep me from inheriting eternal life?
  3. Am I too attached to my stuff to give any of it away at Christ’s command?
  4. What should motivate my giving to the poor?

I also commented on this passage a few years ago for Christian Light Publication‘s Sunday School quarterly lesson for January 5, 2003: The Rich Man — Sad

[The Scriptures say in Mark 10:27 -- With men it is impossible, but not with God]
from Mark 10:27