Ask any church what they hope to see in their people. You will often hear metrics such as consistent weekend attendance, participation in community groups, helping with a serve team, and giving regularly. These are not bad things to want. These only become a problem when doing becomes the goal instead of a means to the goal of becoming like Jesus.
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Jeremy Riddle
Center My Life
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Everything That Has Breath
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I Speak Jesus
Charity Gayle
Galatians 2:20
I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
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Who are you becoming?
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What’s under the hood of your life?
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Who are you becoming by what you are doing?
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The primary goal of every Christ follower in living out their new identity in Jesus is to become like Jesus.
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Luke 10:38-42
As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to him. She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet listening to what he said. But Martha was distracted by all the preparations that had to be made. She came to him and asked, “Lord, don’t you care that my sister has left me to do the work by myself? Tell her to help me!” “Martha, Martha,” the Lord answered, “you are worried and upset about many things, but few things are needed—or indeed only one. Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her.”
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Who you are and who you are becoming informs the rest of your life.
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Becoming Like Jesus
1. Choose to become who you already are in Jesus.
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1 John 5:18-20
We know that everyone who has been born of God does not keep on sinning, but he who was born of God protects him, and the evil one does not touch him. We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one. And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.
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Becoming Like Jesus
2. Choose to be with Jesus.
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