Walking like Jesus walked

[stovebolts]

Hi everyone!
I'm doing a study from Dann Spader from http://www.walkingasjesus.com and it's so exciting I just wanted to share it and get your comments!

The study guide is, "Walking as Jesus walked" and is patterned after this verse:

1 John 2:6 (NKJV)
He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked.

The word walked in the greek is a very interesting word and the NIV translates the verse like this:
Whoever claims to live in him must live as Jesus did.

In a sense, Paul puts it this way:
Philippians 2:5 In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:

I'd like to explore this "Walking as Jesus walked" in the next several weeks.

Let's start off like this.
If you could see your world around you like Jesus sees the world, what would it change about you?
Also,
When you were younger, did you have somebody you looked up to? Somebody you admired?
Who was that person and why did you want to be like them?

 

[jasoncran]

1) less judgemental
2more loving to all
3) less argumentive with the brethren

 

[stovebolts]

Hi Jason!
Wow, you're quick! lol, I actually had a second thought and edited it just as you posted!
This is what I added:
When you were younger, did you have somebody you looked up to? Somebody you admired?
Who was that person and why did you want to be like them?

 

[jasoncran]

Hi Jason!
Wow, you're quick! lol, I actually had a second thought and edited it just as you posted!
This is what I added:
When you were younger, did you have somebody you looked up to? Somebody you admired?
Who was that person and why did you want to be like them?

Charlie, my old sensei, that old man is still one bad dude. he does crossfit at the age of 54. he was very nice to me and encouraged me in my youth.

 

[stovebolts]

That's great Jason.
We all need somebody to look up to and encourage us and I'm glad Charlie was there for you to look up to! He sounds like a real honorable man.

 

[jasoncran]

he isn't saved , I do hear about him from time to time and I have talked to him. pray for him, his wife and kids, and ex wife.

 

[jasoncran]

ok. but NOW I have a Christian man who is saved whom I do see a lot of jesus. he is my mma coach. the one you might hear in the background when I call you when im waiting for class to start. he is real good with kids. honest, while not perfect , about what it is you need to change and work on. whether its technique of things in life.

 

[stovebolts]

he isn't saved , I do hear about him from time to time and I have talked to him. pray for him, his wife and kids, and ex wife.

He sounds like a very good man.

We are God's children, so I want to get us to remember when we were children and who we looked up to and wanted to be just like when we grew up.

For me it was a guy named Johhny Harris. I met him when I was a teenager in Juvenile detention. He taught a positive affirmation course and we could either sit in our rooms or come out and hear him for almost 2 hours. Not too many people stayed in their rooms lol. Johny Harris also taught a select bunch of us private boxing lessons during rec.

Johnny was a good man who as a teen grew up on the streets of Seattle and had found his way eventually to the Walla Walla state penitentiary and was on death row for bank robbery. Something changed with the law and he was let out on appeal. I don't recall the details. His zeal for troubled teens was manifest in the classes he taught on self esteem, self talk and positive affirmation. He led a life of distress and had found a way to change his thinking and he believed in it so strongly that it was his mission to help everyone he could. Johnny was also a Christian, but he downplayed his faith in order to give kids a glimps of how the power of self thought could change their lives. It certainly changed the course of my life.

I looked up to him because he was a strong man, both physically and mentally, but he had a softness about him with genuine concern for each and every individual in that room. I sat in his classes for almost a year and a half and got to know him personally. I still want to be like him!

 

[reba]

I would be more compassionate
Yup Daddy he lived what he preached as much as a human can..

 

[stovebolts]

What do either of you feel are the 2 or 3 most important words in 1 john 2:6?

Which words did you pick and why?

 

[reba]

I dont want to answer because it is self condemning...

says he abides At a loss for correct words.... when we take His name or IOW say we are of Him... we SHOULD live up to it but so often i fail... Jesus walked with God in full obedience O to have that amount of faith...

 

[stovebolts]

Yes, it is humbling isn't it!
But God don't make no junk. We've been justified, adopted as sons / daughters and made new creatures in Christ!

So we keep walking, one step at a time.

This is going to be a fun study huh!

 

[reba]

I bake cookies

 

[stovebolts]

I bake cookies

Ha!

So.... what is your initial impression of what it means to walk as Jesus walked?

 

[reba]

In full faith, obedience to God and His laws , total trust, no doubt. Jesus walked in the foot steps of the Father.

Yours?

 

[stovebolts]

To act and think llike Jesus.

The next section has 9 passages they want us to put iinto our own words. I'll try to post tomorrow.

 

[reba]

 

[sourberry]

When you were younger, did you have somebody you looked up to? Somebody you admired?
Who was that person and why did you want to be like them?

Usually kids would pick older in age friends i.e. 1-2 years older, and follow them.

 

[jasoncran]

its not the knowing what god wants. its the DOING that is hard.

 

[Danus]

I'm having a hard time harmonizing this study based on one verse in 1 John (1 John 2:6), with the full message of 1 John Chp 2; which to me points first and last to the account of the blood of Christ only, and the obedience that faith bring us through the blood of Christ. The study seems to suggest something more than that, but it's not clear.

I have found that obedience to Christ, or lets say, "Walking in the light" of Christ, effortless when, and as, lead by faith in Jesus only. The message of the 2nd Chapter of 1 John, to include all the verses seems, to me to be saying the same.

Any acts I may do in the light of Christ, is to me more of a manifestation of Gods complete love rather than an effort I put forth to do anything, but that's not to say there is no consciousness on my part in the faith God give me, only that my consciousness is rooted in that faith; therefor I do anything.....LOL sort of an endless loop of faith; A power from the spirit that drives me to the Christian life in practice and effort. I count that to God, not me.

I guess that's why I find God so powerful in my own life. What was once an impossible struggle becomes in effortless act of love by God in grace to me, realized in the faith He has given me, more than anything I could possibly must on my own.

I don't know much about Dann Spader, but I have watched some of the videos. I like how they are shot in the Holly land. I think he's obviously pointing to the Christian Life. I'll watch the other videos.