Following the teaching of Christ is obedience and not conformity or something else. Obedience is a form of social influence that involves performing an action under the orders of an authority figure. Through obedience, Jesus accepted the will of His Father. By taking a human form and being born like us in order to save us from sin. Eventually, Jesus’ teachings were concerned with groups and individuals. His teachings based on the daily living examples as people could see and follow what he was doing, saying, writing, and preaching. However, Jesus’ behavior was to do the will of His Father and draw sinners back to God. Clearly, his disciples learned through his teachings and decided to live as Jesus. Listening to Jesus’ teachings, I felt to follow him closely by obeying his will …show more content…
As a follower of Christ, I imitate Christ’s life that I may reach my goals as a religious awaiting for eternal life. Mostly, I reflect on Jesus’ calling his first disciples to come and follow him and he will make them fishers of men. It is through faith, prayer, and trust that I can change many lives of people not even by my words, but only my presence is enough. Surely, my mission for my community and the church made me obey as I live the teachings of Jesus. Knowing Jesus obeyed God, also I obeyed my superiors in whatever mission they had for me. They sent me to teach in elementary school, but before I started teaching, the superiors had the urgent need in the secondary school and this made them change their mind. They wrote a letter asking me to change my mission. Immediately, I agreed and go to work in the secondary school. I had planned to work there for five years, but I ended up working there for ten years. At first, it was hard because I did not know anything about the library. Sadly, everyone in the school even some of the sisters were commenting on my work. I knew it was hard for I never worked as a librarian
We can see the birth of Jesus in Matthew (Matt 1:18-25) (Matt 2:1-12), Luke (Luke 2:1-2) and John (John1:1-18). Both Matthew and Luke tell us that Jesus’ birth place was in Bethlehem in Judea in the time of King Herod of Judea and Emperor Augustine of the Roman Empire. The gospels tell us that Jesus was born in a stable under an inn (Luke 2:7). This is unlikely because Bethlehem was the birthplace of David, who was Joseph’s ancestor. This means that there may have been a house with his cousins or extended family there. The Hebrew word for inn can also be described as ‘the upper room’ and in traditional Jewish houses, there was an upper room where the family stayed and underneath this was the place where the animals were kept. This could have been seen as the stable under the ‘inn’. Now because of the census performed by Emperor Augustine the Jews had to travel to their ancestral home that meant that the house Mary and Joseph were staying at could have been full, so the upper room was full, making the only available room for the baby to be born in the stable below. Jesus was thought to be traditionally born in 1AD after the Monk Dionysus Exigus tried to calculate the year, from the Birth of Jesus, by taking away the reigns of Kings. Unfortunately Exigus made a few errors and Jesus is now thought to be born a few years BC. We know that in Matt 2:1 and Matt2:16 (Luke 1:55) that King Herod the Great was the ruler of Judea. From Roman records we know that King Herod died in 4BC near the feast of the Passover. This means that the earliest time Jesus could have been born was early 4BC. Herod plays an integral part in determining Jesus birth date because it also could explain the Bethlehem Star, which we...
In The Meaning of Jesus N.T. Wright and Marcus Borg present different views on issues relating to how Jesus is viewed. While Borg and Wright do agree on central ideals of Christianity, Borg tends to have more liberal views, whereas Wright holds more conservative views.
“The other Jesus”; a book that reveals the true meaning of being a Christian and gives another view on the characteristics on Jesus, Garrett shows the beauty of the Gospel and how it differs from other religions views on Jesus. In studying the Christianity of the American society he gives his own personal rendition of how this chase for the true meaning of Jesus started: “When, after twenty-five years of wondering, I came back to church, I finally encountered the Other Jesus. I discovered an authentic message of love and acceptance, the one that the Other Jesus seems to be exemplifying in the Christian Testament….I discovered believers who were trying to live lives that reflected the change this Other Jesus had wrought in them. I discovered people who practiced faith as well as preached it.” (Garrett. 8)
Fifth grade will go down in history as my worst year in school, but definitely the most beneficial. From sixth grade on, I receive nearly all A’s in my course. The occasional high B haunted me on rare occasions, but for the most part I worked to the best of my ability to achieve my goals. Throughout the years after middle school I began to realize that school was not what defined me. I had leaned so heavily on the praise I received from getting A’s that I began to think it was my doing and not the Lord’s. As a follower of Christ, I find that I cannot succeed in what God wants me to without utilizing the strength He has given me. When I do decide to walk a different path, I am constantly reminded of the incredibly weak and depressing sinner I am without Christ. While Mrs. Sera is the one who pushed me to want to reach my full academic potential, Christ is the One I utilize in achieving this. Of course there are days where I am tired, busy, and just plain lazy, but my God is stronger, more attentive, and more active than I will ever be. With a passion to become a fully-devoted Spirit-empowered Christ follower, I know that Christ can and will achieve the academic success He desires for
Not our own personal gain or our own popularity, but to be humbled and shine as the salt and light of the Earth. In the new testament book of Matthew, in chapter 5, Jesus is teaching to his disciples on a mountainside. He has already began to decribe what a life of following Chirst entails. In verses 13-16:
Jesus, however, has many different beliefs. He believes there is a certain way to live in order to achieve the greater things in the afterlife. For doing the right thing for god is the way we all need to live. At times it can seem very radical. For example, Jesus says in the Sermon on the Mount "Whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery," and "If you say, 'You fool, ' you will be liable to the hell of
Conformity explains how one responds to an expectation because you are adjusting your behavior or thinking to compare with a overall group standard, with the fear of being the odd one out. Lastly there is obedience which is where you change your judgements or opinions due to an authority figure telling you to do so, in respect of being out of line and in a need to follow rules and expectations of authority due to
In the film, there are examples of not only conformity but also with obedience to authority. One of these is the prisoners have a leader which happens to be the biggest of them all, Dragline. They do whatever he says and follows what he does, which they see him as their authority and conform to him. Moving to just conformity there are few examples. In one of the scenes Luke 's mother visits him in prison, while she is there she asks him why he couldn 't be like her and why he hasn 't found a house to himself meaning, why he couldn 't figure out what to do with his life. By this, she is asking why he isn 't conforming to society by being "normal" because, obeying authority and everyone doing the same thing is normal, to her he should also follow this. Another example is while in the egg contest when Luke wins everyone sees him as their leader which is very clear when they lay him down and he has his arms and legs the way Jesus had when he died. Many people know the position Jesus was in and because he was a leader of a religious group. Therefore in the movie, that scene symbolized Luke as the leader. Luke himself is a very non-conforming character in the movie and from this example, we could see how he isn 't conforming. By agreeing to eat 50 eggs, which is seen as impossible to do, he is not conforming. This could also be one of the reasons behind others seeing him as their
Discipleship is the process of making disciples; students or followers of someone (Oxford Dictionaries, 2016). Although discipleship existed long before Jesus, the disciple-making process as expressed by Jesus is the most impactful example for Christianity. The following is an analysis of discipleship as it was applied to Jesus’ ministry, Jesus’ discipleship model in light of modern leadership theories, and a discussion of what can be gleaned from Jesus’ discipleship model.
...s how Jesus wants people to live. When we act as disciples and conduct ourselves as servant leaders it honors God. It may reflect onto others the good will God gave us and lead others to him. It also gives a great internal fulfillment to help others, not because we are getting something out of it but rather that it helped someone else.
The influence of Jesus of Nazareth, the man, was enormous in his lifetime two millenniums ago, but even more incredible is how his influence has increased today as a member of Christianity's Holy Trinity. Nearly two billion of the world's people worship Jesus as the Son of God today, and even more participate in the mission he began of giving oneself through service to others.
Our society is influenced by social norms that guides our everyday behavior. One of the chapters of our social psychology textbook discussed a great deal about conformity. However, what is considered to be appropriate behavior is subject to change depending on the situation; this is what we call “conformity.” Conformity being defined as a change in behavior as a result of the real or imagined influence of other people. Conforming to something or an idea means that you need some sort of compliance. Compliance is a type of social influence where an individual does what someone else wants them to do; following a request or suggestion. This is similar to obedience, but there is no direct order. There are many techniques of compliance that a person
Jesus was the Son of God and some may ask why he needed followers, the
When Jesus called His disciples, His invitation was simple. He invited them to follow Him. The same is true today. In Matthew 28, Jesus gave His last charge to His disciples, and the charge was simple. He called his followers to go and make disciples. Much effort has been placed by Christians to fulfill this charge, commonly referred to as the Great Commission. Jesus chose to fulfill the implementation of the New Covenant through 12 men who He called, appointed, and commissioned, and he only had a few short years to prepare them for the task (Willson, 1990). His methods were unconventional and were revolutionary for that time. His disciples were to be trained extensively by Jesus, living with Him for three years prior to His ascension. He taught about servant leadership and its meaning for both the leader and follower Matt. 20:25-28). From the beginning, Jesus put in place a careful plan, and an examination of His actions in the Gospels showed that Jesus left behind the pattern to be replicated. His methods, which included the incorporation of three different levels of discipleship, included His interaction with Peter, His closest three (Peter, James, and John), and finally the group of 12. This paper identified and analyzed the three levels of discipleship Jesus modeled, these discipleship methods were then measured against modern leadership theories, and Jesus’s level of involvement and interaction with his disciples were critiqued in light of these modern theories in an effort to determine the effectiveness of this approach.
Do you like to talk out your problems with a friend? Do you like to hear other people’s problems? Why do we always need to share our problems with someone? The truth is, humans are weak. We’ve always known that we can’t live by ourselves. So, it’s not a question that we need to share our burdens with someone else. We want someone to feel what we’re going through. And we’re hoping that that friend of ours has a way out of it, right? Whatever it takes, we want our problems to be solved. Unfortunately, it’s not every time can we find someone who wants to hear our problems L. Well, that’s the way humans are. We’re not perfect. But our Father in heaven is. He will faithfully listen to everything we’ve got on our minds. He is the only one who has the way, the truth, and the life. Of course, He knows how to solve our problems and He will help us with them. Now, doesn’t that sound good? Well, don’t you want to learn to hear God’s voice? The question is…how does He talk to us? Here are a few ways: