Which of the following are similar to the ways you've served Christ in your family? [check all that apply]
• Taught your kids to see God's glory in nature
• Washed the dishes without being asked
• Played a board game with your kids
• Encouraged your wife to finish her master's degree
• Attended a child's open house at school
• Worked fewer hours to be with your family
• Set an example of a godly prayer life for your children
• Held a crying child
• Swung on the tire swing with your daughter
• Told your wife why you're still in love with her
• Told your son he's got what it takes
• Coached soccer
• Let you child correct you now and then
• Fixed the vacuum cleaner
• Taught your sons to ride a bike
• Listened patiently to a complaint of your wife
• Taped your child's artwork to your office wall
• Admitted to your kids that you were wrong
• Told your children how Christ entered your life
• Cleaned up vomit
• Taught your children to love books
• Been romantic without expecting sex
• Told your daughter she's smart/beautiful
• Set standards for your kids and stuck to them
• Dealt graciously with a busybody neighbor
• Peeled carrots
• Watched movies together
Grasping the Gospels Theme of the Week: Thriving on God's Word Thursday, October 24, 2002
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September/October 200255Grasping the GospelsTheme of the Week: Thriving on God's Word Grasping the Gospels Theme of the Week: Thriving on God's Word Thursday, October 24
Key Bible Verse: "Real life comes by feeding on every word of the LORD" (Deuteronomy 8:3). Bonus Reading:1 John 2:3-6
During the summers I teach a six-week intensive New Testament Greek course in seminary. The students spend five hours a day, Monday through Friday, studying the language of the New Testament. They have five to six hours of homework every night!
In the process, these students begin to learn to translate the New Testament for themselves. After they've gotten a lot of the difficult grammar under their belts, we begin to work our way through some of the easier Greek in the New Testament, the first epistle of John.
One of the more difficult verses they take on is 1 John 2:6, which is translated, "the one who continually says that he continually abides in Him ought (even himself) to continually walk even as that one walked" (my translation). That's a little awkward, but the students see that John's point is very practical. If I claim to be a follower of Christ, then I need to know how He lived so that my life can start to look like His. God walked on planet earth for 30 years, providing the model of godly living which every Christian should study carefully! And the way I learn how He lived is by studying the four Gospels!
—Larry Dixon in DocDevos
My Response: To really answer the WWJD question requires …
Thought to Apply: It was only after I came to the Gospels [that] I suddenly discovered the way that life should be followed.—David Suchet (British actor)
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