Discovery 5: You Can Develop a Christlike Character Discovery 5: You Can Develop a Christlike Character

Discovery 5: You Can Develop Christlike Character Taking on the Family Resemblance Discovery 5: You Can Develop Christlike Character Taking on the Family Resemblance

As family members live together over time, they take on the family resemblance.

Winners of the “I Look Like My Dog” Contest

Winners of the “I Look Like My Dog” Contest

Winners of the “I Look Like My Dog” Contest

Winners of the “I Look Like My Dog” Contest

Winners of the “I Look Like My Dog” Contest

Winners of the “I Look Like My Dog” Contest

You can become a person of Christlike character through the transforming work of the Holy Spirit.

Romans 12:1-2

Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual act of worship. Romans 12:1-2 Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual act of worship.

Romans 12:1-2 Do not conform any longer 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 12:1-2 Do not conform any longer 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.

1.God calls us to give ourselves completely to Him. Romans 12:1 …offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual act of worship. 1.God calls us to give ourselves completely to Him. Romans 12:1 …offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual act of worship.

2.God calls us to turn away from the pattern of this present age. Romans 12:2 Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world… 2.God calls us to turn away from the pattern of this present age. Romans 12:2 Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world…

3.God calls us to a life of transformation. Romans 12:2 …be transformed by the renewing of your mind. 3.God calls us to a life of transformation. Romans 12:2 …be transformed by the renewing of your mind.

A Christlike character requires that we work out what God is working on in us. Philippians 2:12-13 Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed—not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence—continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose. A Christlike character requires that we work out what God is working on in us. Philippians 2:12-13 Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed—not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence—continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose.

A Christlike character requires effort on our part. Hebrews 6:1-3 (The Message) So come on, let's leave the preschool finger painting exercises on Christ and get on with the grand work of art. Grow up in Christ. A Christlike character requires effort on our part. Hebrews 6:1-3 (The Message) So come on, let's leave the preschool finger painting exercises on Christ and get on with the grand work of art. Grow up in Christ.

The basic foundational truths are in place: turning your back on "salvation by self help" and turning in trust toward God; baptismal instructions; laying on of hands; resurrection of the dead; Eternal judgment. God helping us, we'll stay true to all that. But there's so much more. Let's get on with it! The basic foundational truths are in place: turning your back on "salvation by self help" and turning in trust toward God; baptismal instructions; laying on of hands; resurrection of the dead; Eternal judgment. God helping us, we'll stay true to all that. But there's so much more. Let's get on with it!

A Christlike character requires time. 2 Peter 1:3-8 (The Message) Everything that goes into a life of pleasing God has been miraculously given to us by getting to know, personally and intimately, the One who invited us to God. The best invitation we ever received!

We were also given absolutely terrific promises to pass on to you — your tickets to participation in the life of God after you turned your back on a world corrupted by lust. So don't lose a minute in building on what you've been given,

complementing your basic faith with good character, spiritual understanding, alert discipline, passionate patience, reverent wonder, warm friendliness, and generous love, each dimension fitting into and developing the others. complementing your basic faith with good character, spiritual understanding, alert discipline, passionate patience, reverent wonder, warm friendliness, and generous love, each dimension fitting into and developing the others.

With these qualities active and growing in your lives, no grass will grow under your feet, no day will pass without its reward as you mature in your experience of our Master Jesus.

God is the One who transforms and conforms us into the image of His Son. It’s a divine miracle.

We don’t earn it; we don’t deserve it. All He asks is that we remain open to Him and live in daily obedience.

Romans 12:1-2 (The Message) So here's what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life — your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking- around life — and place it before God as an offering. Romans 12:1-2 (The Message) So here's what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life — your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking- around life — and place it before God as an offering.

Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don't become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don't become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God.

You'll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what He wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.