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    • What does it mean to follow Christ? - CompellingTruth.org
      • As we follow Christ, He becomes our primary desire and the measure by which we live our lives. We seek His presence and abide in Him (John 15:1–17). We seek to obey Him by loving God wholeheartedly and loving others as ourselves (John 13:34–35). We are responsive to the work of the Holy Spirit in our lives (Philippians 2:12–13).
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  1. Jan 4, 2022 · To truly follow Christ means He has become everything to us. Everyone follows something: friends, popular culture, family, selfish desires, or God. We can only follow one thing at a time (Matthew 6:24). God states we are to have no other gods before Him (Exodus 20:3; Deuteronomy 5:7; Mark 12:30).

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    Here is the big issue: How do you go about living the Christian life in such a way that you are actually doing the living, doing the acting, and doing the willing, and yet Christ, or the Holy Spirit, is decisively doing the living, and doing the acting, and doing the willing in and through your acting, willing, and doing? That is the key issue, it ...

    Now that is what A.P.T.A.T., an acronym, is intended to answer. Or to put it another way, how do you obey Philippians 2:12–13: “Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you”? What are the strategies that we take to make sure we can say that with integrity about our Christian life? Or to put it another way, how...

    So here is A.P.T.A.T. — each of letters stands for an action that I take. And you can do this in one minute before you face some challenge.

    But the key, the fulcrum, in this sequence where everything hangs, I think, is that point of trusting. Trusting God’s promised help — future grace for the next five seconds or five minutes or five hours. It is called living by faith in future grace. It is called God will help you. “I will help you. I will strengthen you. I will meet every need.” Yo...

  2. As we follow Christ, He becomes our primary desire and the measure by which we live our lives. We seek His presence and abide in Him (John 15:1–17). We seek to obey Him by loving God wholeheartedly and loving others as ourselves (John 13:34–35).

    • Keep Your Eyes on the Prize. Heart pumping furiously, leg muscles screaming, the marathon runner rounds the last bend. The cheering crowds grow exponentially louder as he approaches the end of his race.
    • Determine to Live a Holy Life. Living in a post-Christian culture requires an awareness of spiritual warfare. There is a battle going on for the souls of men, and this battle rages between the Spirit of God and the angels of heaven, and our enemy, the devil, and his demonic spirits, the fallen angels.
    • Let God’s Word Be Your Authority and Priority. Have you ever taken care of a hungry baby? One moment they are lying in your arms perfectly content and in about sixty seconds they can be screaming like they haven’t eaten in days.
    • Love Others Well with the Love of Christ. In a post-Christian culture, there are only two types of people: those who love Jesus, and those who don’t. Yet, both kinds of people need the same thing.
  3. Mar 31, 2023 · Christ-centered lives rest in the finished work of Jesus on their behalf and yearn for holiness as a means of staying close to Him (Hebrews 12:14). The secret to living a Christ-centered life is understanding the “fear of the Lord” (Psalm 19:9; Proverbs 16:6).

  4. Oct 31, 2024 · 3. The Holy Spirit Empowers Us to Live a Life of Faith. The third core truth is that the Holy Spirit empowers believers to live a life of faith. When Jesus ascended to heaven, He promised to send a Helper, the Holy Spirit, to guide, comfort, and empower His followers (John 14:16-17). This promise is central to the Christian life because, on our ...

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  6. Jul 7, 2021 · The first step to being a faithful follower of Jesus is to understand how he wants you to live. The Bible says that “Jesus said, I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to Father except through me.” (John 14:6) This means that how you live your life should be based on how Jesus lived his life.