Developing Friendships By Allowing Christ-like Character Qualities to Flow Through You
"Have this attitude in you which was also in Christ Jesus." (Phil. 2:5)
1. Be Accountable without getting hung up on doing things right and forgetting to do right things
2. Be Alert, but do not be quick to criticize, doubt or presume something missing without first looking for the silver cloud behind every dark cloud in situations and people.
3. Be All Things to All Men to win some without being insecure about your own identity, personality, outlook, convictions, experiences, callings, culture, genetics, ideas or background.
4. Be Amiable, but do not be so socially concerned that you become a man pleaser willing to do whatever it takes for people to like you.
5. Be Analytical with becoming too wrapped up in details and problems in situations or people.
6 Aspire to Greatness, but do not pursue only selfish ambitions that involve dirty politicizing.
7. Be Balanced without lacking hard convictions to do what is right even when it is unpopular.
8. Be Bold without being over-bearing, pushy or insisting on your own way.
9. Be Compassionate, but do not be overly sympathetic, empathetic, or gullible.
10. Be Confident, but do not become arrogant, high minded, and conceited.
11. Be Contextual without being inappropriate, compromising or lacking in relevance to reality.
12. Be Cooperative, but do not resort to conniving, intrigue, or under-handed tactics.
13. Be Courageous, but do not become a loose canon that shouts ones mouth off whenever you become irritated. Do not let subjective moods cloud your sense of objective purposes and processes
14. Be Courteous, but do not merely resort to superficial flattery to impress people.
15. Be Creative, but do not let your dreams dictate how you live your life. Do not let speculations, imaginations, or visions of greatness determine your sense of well being.
16. Be Decisive, but do not become so stuck in your ways that you lose flexibility.
17. Be Diligent, but do not get into one-track thinking. Do not become selfishly industrious.
18. Be Directed by the scriptures without being a legalist, a hair-splitter, dogmatic or one who fails
to realize that all truth is God's truth.
19. Be Discerning, but do not become judgmental, overly critical, or proud of your analysis.
20. Be Disciplined, but do not become rigid, harsh, overbearing, or dictatorial.
21. Be Discrete, but do not be so over-cautious that you are afraid to act on truth. Do not become so timid and afraid that you simply do not want to make any mistakes or hurt others' feelings.
22. Be Earnest, but do not become nervously meticulous, over conscientious, or over serious.
23. Be Efficient, but do not become enslaved by perfectionism, fussiness, or impatience.
24. Be Empowered by God without being too authoritative, dictatorial, or overbearing.
25. Be Enthusiastic, but not fanatical or over wrought hl your approach to solving problems.
26. Be Evangelistic without being so one tracked that you cannot talk about a person's felt needs.
27. Be Expressive without being wordy, glib, vociferous or melodramatic.
28. Be Fair-minded without being indecisive or allowing fairness issues to halt your progress.
29. Be Flexible without being wishy-washy, spineless, or a doormat for others' purposes.
30. Be Forgiving without being irresponsible in your leniency, permissiveness, or weakness.
31. Be Frank without being tactless, insensitive, undiplomatic or disrespectful.
32. Be Friendly without being nepotistic, cliquish, or tribalistic.
33. Be Frugal without being cheap, stingy, or penny wise and pound-foolish.
34. Be Generous without being extravagant, wasteful or squandering away God's resources.
35. Be Gracious without being a push over.
36. Be Grateful without being too flattering, gushy, or over generous in giving compliments.
37. Be Hateful of what is evil without becoming obnoxious or self-righteous.
38. Be Holistic without being eclectic, synergistic, or lacking focus.
39. Be Holy without being pious, Pharisaical, or self-righteous.
40. Be Honest without being legalistic, outspoken too blunt or brutal or indiscrete
41. Be Hopeful without being overly optimistic or forgetting God's sovereign future plans
42. Be Hospitable without being ingratiating, cliquish or using it as a tool for social climbing
43. Be Humble without lacking confidence or being too hard on yourself or acting like an ascetic
44. Be Humorous without being flippant, irresponsible or lacking in discernment
45. Be Insightful without being so obsessed with being right that you fail to learn by experiences
46. Be Joyful without being reliant on happy feelings to do what is right
47. Be Kind without being tolerant of what goes against the expressed will of God
48. Be Knowledgeable without being arrogant, snooty or puffed up with your own opinions
49. Be a Listener without being sympathetic to standards that are unacceptable to God
50. Be Loving without being mushy, driven by emotions or clouded in your judgment by subjectivity
51. Be Loyal without being possessive or practicing blind obedience or undue attachments.
52. Be Mature in your mind, will, emotions and spirituality without being arrogant or distant
53. Be Meek without being weak
54. Be a Motivator without trying to control manipulate, or lord authority over people
55. Be Neat without being obsessive about your perfectionism, or intolerance for differences
56. Be Obedient to the Lord without being like a puppet who does not have the ability to make their own decisions
57. Be Objective without being cold, uncaring or insensitive
58. Be Patient without being indifferent, permissive or disinterested
59. Be Perceptive without being so calculating that you fail to learn from mistakes
60. Be Persistent without being stubborn, inflexible or headstrong
61. Be Persuasive without resorting to smooth talk, high pressured tactics or pushiness
62. Be Prayerful without lacking balance in the moral, educational, political, social, communicational, cultural, emotional, physical or spiritual aspects of life
63. Be Punctual without being impatient
64. Be Purposeful without being so single minded that you cannot see the forest for the trees
65. Be Able to Recover after setbacks without becoming depressed, lazy or complacent
66. Be Respectful without practicing idol worship or debilitating subservience
67. Be Resourceful without being overly independent, manipulative or coercive
68. Be Resolute without being hard headed, close minded or stubborn
69. Be Responsive without being reactive or only willing to do something when you are pushed
70. Be Self-controlled not forgetting to rely on the Spirit to direct your mind, will and emotions
71. Be Sensitive without being touchy, easily offended or overly emotional
72. Be Sincere without being gullible, overly serious or impulsive
73. Be a Servant without being a doormat for others to use, abuse or misuse
74. Be Smart without being so concerned to get all the facts that you fail to learn by doing
75. Be Sober minded without being so dull that people grow bored with your teaching
76. Be Tactful without being so considerate that you never accomplish anything
77. Be Teachable without being gullible, simple minded or willing to do whatever is urgent
78. Be Truthful without being a tyrant who lacks love, understanding or cultural awareness
79. Be Victorious without expecting to win every battle. Choose your battles and let God fight for you
80. Be a Visionary without being a dreamer, a speculator or a person with their head in the clouds
81. Be Wise without being a wise guy
82. Be Worldwide in your concerns for all the people so you do not become myopic
83. Be Yielded to God without being so heavenly minded that you are of little earthly good
84. Be Zealous without being uptight, fanatical or wild eyed in your approach to problems.
Jesus replied, "You are in error because you do not know the Scriptures
or the power of God.
New Living Translation (©2007)
Jesus replied, "Your mistake is that you don't know the Scriptures, and
you don't know the power of God.
English Standard Version (©2001)
But Jesus answered them, “You are wrong, because you know neither the
Scriptures nor the power of God.
New American Standard Bible (©1995)
But Jesus answered and said to them, "You are mistaken, not
understanding the Scriptures nor the power of God.
King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the
scriptures, nor the power of God.
International Standard Version (©2008)
Let Christ be your problem-solver,
1. Promises
2. Problem-solving capacities
3. Pain relief
4. Perspective
5. Performing
6. Prevailing
7. Positioning
8. Pre-emimence
9. Pardon
10. Purposes
11. Power
12. Provider
13. Physician
14. Pilot
