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What does it m e a n to you to live? Friends—clothes—money—pleas ure? Paul said, “I am crucified with Christ.” Do we reckon ourselves dead, or is self ruling our lives? A Christian personality is one which Christ com pletely controls. He is not just help ing you and walking by your side, but He is actually living His life in you, and the measure in which you let Him use you determines the amount of Christian personality you will have. To step out of the self-life into a Christ-life; to learn to follow Him and not to run ahead of His orders; to live in Him and for Him: this is the way to develop Christian personality. IV. WHAT IS YOUR PERSONALITY RATING? Check yourself on these questions. Each question counts 10 if answered, “Yes.” If your score is 100, praise the Lord; if 90, surrender that one thing to Him; if 80, watch and pray; if 70, ask Him to help you lay aside every weight; if it is 60, Psalm 51:10 is your only hope. 1. Do I begin every day by talking to the Lord and reading His Word? 2. Do I take advantage of every op portunity to witness for Him? 3. Am I willing to do anything He, wants me to do? 4. When everything goes wrong, do I still thank Him? 5. Do I always think of others before myself? 6. Do I always bring my problems to the Lord before I tell others? 7. No matter where I am, can I say that I am not ashamed of Him? 8. Does my money go for the Lord’s work first, and then what is left over for myself? 9. Is it my utmost desire to do His will? 10. Do I love Him more than anyone else in the whole world? Conclusion Young people, let’s not be afraid to be different; we want to have real personalities and all of us rqav. p «-. member that the more we have of Christ and the more He 1.r.a more our personalities will grow. Our ideal is to be like Him.
AUGUST 5, 1945 DEVELOPING AN ATTRACT IVE PERSONALITY P roverbs 2:1-10; L uke 2 :52 By Marguerite Johnson “Personality” is a considerably mis understood though widely used term. This is true even of the expression, “Christian personality.” We shall con sider personality from this viewpoint as that is the only phase in which Christians are vitally interested. What is it? How does it grow? How can you have it? How can.you develop what you have? This, is the diction ary definition: “Personality is the as semblage of qualities, physical, men tal, and moral that sets one apart from others.”' If we add “spiritual qualities” we describe what makes a Christian personality. For Those Who Have Topics I. BIBLICAL EXAMPLES OF GREAT PERSONALITIES. We can learn valuable lessons from other lives. Why were so many Bible characters outstanding in their per sonality? If we study their lives, we can learn faith from Abraham, meek ness from Moses, prayerfulness from Daniel, courage from Esther, aggres siveness from Peter and heroism from Paul. II. A CHRISTIAN PERSONALITY PRE SUPPOSES SPIRITUAL LIFE. Naturally speaking, a dead man has no personality, so unless you have spiritual life, you will not have Chris tian personality. Eternal life begins with the acceptance of the Lord Jesus Christ as your Saviour. If you have never made Him your Saviour, now is the time to do it‘(2 Cor. 6:2). “He that believeth on the Son hath life." So by simply taking God at His Word and receiving Christ as your personal Saviour, you too may have life. III. A CHRISTIAN PERSONALITY DE MANDS SURRENDER. Many people have eternal life, but still they lack that certain something we call personality. Paul’s life em bodied the most powerful testimony for Christ the world has ever seen and the reason for that was that he
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IT’S AN IDEA By Carlton C. Buck Idea 1. Let the Young Peo- j pie’s hour one night during f this month be a preparation m e e t i n g for an evening Church service. Your Pastor j will be happy to have the | C. E. Society bring its cho- r ruses and testimonies during the evangelistic hour follow- ! ing the C. E. time. j Idea 2. In the August 12 I meeting bring out the fact j that life is “teamwork.” First, teamwork with God for “we are laborers together.” Sec ond, teamwork with e a c h I other. Have one of the mem- j bers of the football or basket ball team tell why coopera tion is necessary. Idea 3. F o r t h e August I 19 meeting on gambling, it I would be well to invite in a j Christian law enforcement of- 1 ficer to describe the danger in | “harmless g a m b 1 i n g,” so j called. Idea 4. By the end of Au gust, Young People will prob- * ably be back from Summer J Camps and Conferences. Turn j the program over to the re- i turning delegates in order that those who were not able to at tend the Conferences will be ( able to enjoy the “afterglow.” j The C. E. room may furnish { atmosphere w i t h mountain decorations. With testimonies J of delegates on fire for Christ, I you can have a mountain-top I experience at home. i had found the secret of death to self and life in Christ. He was willing to count all things but loss for Christ. Are you? He said, “To me to live is Christ.” And he was one of the most interesting personalities of which we have any account.
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