'Single-minded discipleship means looking solely at your Master and adopting this 'pattern' of thinking, acting and feeling..."walk even as he walked" (1 John 2v6), and "Do as he has done" (John 13v15), "love as he has loved" (Ephesians 5v2, John 13v34, 15v12), "forgive as he forgave" (Col. 3v13), "have this mind, which was also in Christ Jesus" (Phil 2v5), and therefore we are able to follow the example he has left us (1 Peter 2v21), lay down our lives for the brethren as he did (1 John 3v16). It is only because He became like us that we can become like him...it is not an ideal one can conform himself to, but Christ himself living in the person...therefore we should not speak of the Christian life: we should speak rather of Christ living in us. "I live, and yet no longer I, but Christ lives in me" ...and where Christ is there is the Father and the Spirit also.'
Ephesians 5v1
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