Even As I Also Am Of Christ

by Rick Beckman on April 6, 02010

Be ye fol­low­ers of me, even as I also am of Christ. 1 Corinthi­ans 11:1

I have been guilty repeat­edly online of encour­ag­ing peo­ple to fol­low me… on Twit­ter, on Face­book, on my blog(s)… on numer­ous other places.

And cer­tainly, ask­ing peo­ple to be fol­low­ers of you is bib­li­cal, pro­vided they are fol­low­ing only as you are of Christ.

I appre­ci­ate the audi­ence the Inter­net affords, but it must seri­ously be con­sid­ered whether I am using the Inter­net to become a part of a micro-​celebrity cul­ture or in order to encour­age oth­ers to walk in Jesus’ hum­ble foot­steps by means of my own example.

We all, as Chris­tians, must address that in our own lives.

If we have fol­low­ers, then they must be encour­aged to fol­low us only as we walk in Jesus’ exam­ple. Con­versely, if we are not walk­ing in His shoes, so to speak, then we are unwor­thy of being fol­lowed… and we are instead the blind lead­ing the blind to a pit of destruction.

Even the famous Phar­isee Paul — an edu­cated man who was likely from a well-​to-​do fam­ily — declared his own exam­ple worth­less if it is not the exam­ple of Jesus Christ.

May your fol­low­ers be fol­low­ers of Jesus-​in-​you, and may Jesus-​in-​you be shown forth brightly by your actions, that oth­ers may fol­low Him through you.

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