More Sunday Thoughts About Being Like Jesus
We continue our little summer Sunday mini-series about being like Jesus. How often we've read or been told how important this is. But when we think about it, we may wonder what it could possible mean. With this in mind, here are some more thoughts from Rev. George Zimpfer “‘Imitation of Christ’ does not mean that we must seek an exact parallel of incidents in our lives and that of Jesus. It means that we must strive to think and act according to His spirit, as we should judge He would speak and act or think in any given circumstances. The hundreds of expressions of our spirituality are our own, just as the events of our Lord’s life were peculiarly His own. His day was not as our day; His circumstances of life were not as ours. Yet he lived, and he asks us to live in like manner. It is an ideal, of course, and we strive to approximate it. We must look beneath the outward circumstances, the mere activities of Christ’s life, and try to discover the deep m...