Fundamentalists hold to certain standards, but time and experience has shown that standards have weakened, wobbled and, in some cases, crashed! So, the question is, are your standards from those who weakened, those who wobbled, those who crashed, or those of Christ???
While developing “Bible To You” lessons, the Lord called on us to write on living a new life in, of, and for the Lord Jesus Christ. We loved the challenge of prayerfully searching God’s Word for the clear teaching of His standard of living. What we found was that our God’s ways certainly are not many of our ways, not even the ways of many of us who preach and teach God’s Word on a regular basis!
How would you like to honor your Heavenly Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, allowing the Holy Spirit more freedom to work in and through you? Several lessons, in particular, of New Life Series will be of great value to you, if you work through them hungering and thirsting to be more like the Master.
The song, More like the Master, by Charles H. Gabriel, which is sung in many of our churches, is a cry to God that expresses a prayerful need that only the Word of God can fully satisfy. The first verse and chorus go as follows:
More like the Master I would ever be,
More of His meekness, more humility;
More zeal to labor, more courage to be true,
More consecration for work He bids me do.
- Refrain:
Take Thou my heart, I would be Thine alone;
Take Thou my heart, and make it all Thine own;
Purge me from sin, O Lord, I now implore,
Wash me and keep me Thine forevermore.
If you want to be more like the Master, or if you want those under your teaching to be more like the Master, we encourage you to utilize these lessons from the New Life Series: Lesson 2, Holy God, Holy People; Lesson 3, Be An Example; Lesson 6, Grieve Not The Holy Spirit Of God; Lesson 7, The Walk Of The Believer; Lesson 8, The Work Of The Believer.
In closing, may Christ be greatly glorified through the teaching of His Word found in these lessons, as more of us become more like the Master! Amen