Checkpoint 4

Checkpoint Number 4: Do I have a believable Christian testimony in the world?

If I am to show off the goodness of Jesus Christ – I must have a life to match. One that is consistent.

God’s aim is to lift up the reputation of his Son in the world. My life must not undermine that.

You have a reputation outside the church – in your home, neighbourhood, workplace, school or other social settings. You must have a believable Christian reputation if you are a follower of Christ.

Acts 5.13. No one else dared join them, even though they were highly regarded by the people.

1 Thess 4.10-12. Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business and to work with your hands, just as we told you, so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody.

1 Peter 4.3-5. For you have spent enough time in the past doing what pagans choose to do—living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing and detestable idolatry. They think it strange that you do not plunge with them into the same flood of dissipation, and they heap abuse on you. But they will have to give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.

You can no longer take part in activities that contradict the Bible description of Christian living.

To do so is to dishonour Christ.