Practicing the Way Flashcards
The world is continuously trying to mold us.
Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
Romans 12.2
Jesus is the path to God
Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
John 14.6 NIV
Following Jesus way is not easy, and you can be distracted
“Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.
Matthew 7.13-14 NIV
Fruit of the Spirit
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
Galatians 5;22-23 NIV
Abide with Jesus continuously
Be thankful in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you who belong to Christ Jesus. Never stop praying. Always be joyful.
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 NLT
Paul’s prayer for lives to be transformed and wounds to be healed
I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
Ephesians 3:16-19 NIV
Doctrine of incorporation - being integrated into the inner life of God through Chtist
“My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one— I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.
John 17:20-23 NIV
Embrace life’s challenges
Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance.
James 2:2-3 NIV
Do the stuff
Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good.
1 Corinthians 12:7 NIV
Live at the right pace
I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
Phillippians 3:14 NIV
Synergy - working not for God but with God.
For God is working in you, giving you the desire and the power to do what pleases him.
Philippians 2:13 NLT
The Great Commission
“He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.”
Mark 16:15 NIV