is WWJD (what would Jesus do) a good thing?....can it be poor guidance in today's society?
is WWJD (what would Jesus do) a good thing?....can it be poor guidance in today's society?
is WWJD (what would Jesus do) a good thing?
Ask anyone who 'uses' it.is WWJD (what would Jesus do) a good thing?....can it be poor guidance in today's society?
is WWJD (what would Jesus do) a good thing?....can it be poor guidance in today's society?
Jesus is Lord. You are not Lord. You cannot and should not do everything Jesus does.
Nevertheless, He is our model.
A better question: "What would Jesus have me do in this situation?"
If I had to choose an answer, I would say "it's good." However, this assumes that the person making the judgments actually knows what "Jesus would do." Most of the time, that's not the case.
is WWJD (what would Jesus do) a good thing?....can it be poor guidance in today's society?
Jesus is Lord. You are not Lord. You cannot and should not do everything Jesus does.
"sovereign over all creation" things, like suddenly becoming invisible to attackers or healing the sick or calming a storm, raising the dead.
You are quite right Danbha, thats exactly why we see very little of it in the church today because Pastors are afraid to preach it and people dont study for themselves but for those who seek, do find, when they knock on the door, it is opened. I have seen healings that would make you do what I did and that was stand frozen in time because I couldnt wrap my mind around what I had seen. I watched a tornado explode into pieces when I spoke against it. It is easier for believers to make excuses why God didnt heal or this was something only Jesus could of done, I have heard so many excuses its sad. The thing is God will no accept excuses when we someday stand before Him. We are filled with the same Holy Spirit Jesus was, who IS the power of God. This is the same Holy Spirit who hovered over the earth waiting upon the Word to be spoken so He could do the work of creating the world, as the Father wished. Peace !True. Bad preaching and Biblical illiteracy have done much damage to the body of Christ.
WWJD is a valid guide, I think. Look at what Jesus said, "Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets." (Matt. 7:12), and "And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise." (Luke 6:31). This is better known as the "Golden Rule" which people, prior to WWJD, have used as the guide to fulfilling the "Law of Christ/Greatest Commandment" for many years. The "Law of Christ" which is to "Love your neighbor as you would love yourself" is fulfilled by the "Golden Rule." You love your neighbor as you would love yourself, by doing unto your neighbor as you would have done unto yourself (presumably if we were in their shoes).
So, What would Jesus do? He would follow the Greatest Commandment by which all of the law and prophets are fulfilled, and He would have us do the same.
It's no use saying that none of us keep this law perfectly. We break it every day (in our hearts, if in no other way). Nor is it of any use to say that many who have the bumper stickers, bracelets, t-shirts, etc, don't live up to it, or that it is merely a slogan. So what? Many people have Bibles that never read them, or apply the things in them, or go to church and do the same. That is not the point of it. The point of it is to remind us of the standard that we are to strive for and to rely on the Holy Spirit and His guiding us through the Word to increase in our love for God and man as we go.
is WWJD (what would Jesus do) a good thing?....can it be poor guidance in today's society?