If you want to learn how to be a Christian husband or wife, it would probably help to learn from someone who has been a successful Christian husband or wife for a long time.
If you want to know how to raise your children, as a Christian parent, it would probably help to learn from someone who has been a successful Christian parent for a long time.
If you want to learn how to live the Christian life, it would probably help to learn from someone who has been a successful Christian for a long time.
If you want to learn how to properly understand the Bible, it would probably help to learn from someone who is a mature and Christlike believer for a long time.
If we choose not to learn from someone who has already learned the truth and the way of Christ, we will either have a slower spiritual development or we will have gaps and twists in our personal growth that will hinder our relationship with Christ and our success in living the Christian life.
If we want to be the living epistles of God, the messengers of redemptive truth to our family, our friends and the foreigner, we need to take advantage of every opportunity to grow in grace and knowledge at the present time. When the word of God is rare, the likeness of Christ is going to be rare also. The lack of Christ likeness is not strictly because we were born with a sinful nature, it is because we have not been born again with a new nature and we have not been trained, led into the way of victory and purity.
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