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Introduction:
- The major goal of Christian living is to develop Christlike character in our lives. Daily we want to
become more and more like Jesus Christ by replacing bad character qualities with good ones.
- This method helps us to identify/understand the negative and positive character qualities.
Definition:
- It is finding out what the Bible says about a particular characteristic of a person with a heavy
emphasis on personal application.
- This method is a simplified form of three BS methods:
1. The Word Study Method (7)
2. The Biographical Method (5)
3. The Cross-Reference Method (6)
- Differs from the Biographical Method here you are studying the characteristics of a person
rather than the person himself.
- The point is that we learn to avoid the negative ones and work on building the positive ones into
our lives.
Tools needed:
1. A Study Bible
2. An exhaustive concordance
3. A Bible dictionary and/or a word study book
4. A topical Bible
5. An English dictionary
Tips to follow on how to develop the positive biblical character qualities in our lives:
1. Only work on one quality at a time.
- It takes concentrated effort to see how that one quality applies to every area of our lives.
- It is far better to build one quality solidly into your life than to work on several weak ones.
2. Dont rush it.
- Character development takes time.
- Even though one of the steps is writing out an illustration after one week, you should
probably want to work on one quality for a much longer time.
- John said that he found in his life that God works on an area for months and sometimes
years before it becomes part of his daily walking with God.
3. Stay with that one quality until we get victory in that specific area.
- Dont skip around, trying to work on many qualities, when you need victory in that one.
- Remember that the quality of diligence is one you want to work on.
4. Be alert to a negative quality in your life that is actually a positive one being misused.
- The Lord wants to turn our weak points into strong ones.
- If we are rigid(strict), legalistic, and unbending, it might be that the quality of self-discipline
is being misused. That discipline needs to be tampered with compassion and concern to
others.
5. Trust the Holy Spirit to build these qualities in our lives.
- It is Gods power in us that reproduces the fruit of the Spirit in our lives.
- It is God alone who can change our character (Phil 2:13) For it is God who works in you to
will and to act according to his good purpose.
- So let God do it, trusting the Holy Spirit to work in your life.
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