1 00:00:06,380 --> 00:00:09,712 Subtitles by: www.NotreEglise.com 2 00:00:22,371 --> 00:00:24,940 Do you ever speak to a young Christian and say: 3 00:00:24,940 --> 00:00:28,767 "Do you want to know what Christianity is like? 4 00:00:30,570 --> 00:00:32,835 Watch me." 5 00:00:33,420 --> 00:00:35,744 Do you ever say that? 6 00:00:44,515 --> 00:00:46,933 After all, the apostle Paul can say: 7 00:00:46,933 --> 00:00:52,127 "Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ." 8 00:00:56,820 --> 00:00:58,580 For all of us do follow people 9 00:00:58,580 --> 00:01:00,620 whether we like it or not 10 00:01:00,620 --> 00:01:03,924 consciously or unconsciously we do 11 00:01:13,340 --> 00:01:14,733 There are all kinds of things that are learned 12 00:01:14,733 --> 00:01:18,533 as much by example as by word. 13 00:01:24,149 --> 00:01:28,460 Isn't that why we pray and work to train up Christian parents? 14 00:01:28,460 --> 00:01:30,345 It's not just what the parents say, its what they do: 15 00:01:30,345 --> 00:01:32,266 "Watch me!" 16 00:01:36,020 --> 00:01:38,780 So if you're looking around for a good senior mentor, 17 00:01:38,780 --> 00:01:40,740 then always ask some fundamental questions. 18 00:01:40,740 --> 00:01:43,540 Don't just simply say: oh that person seems to be making a great go at it. 19 00:01:43,540 --> 00:01:49,940 Wonderful succes, just love that personnality, would like to be like that! 20 00:01:49,940 --> 00:01:53,140 Instead ask some fundamental questions. 21 00:01:53,140 --> 00:01:56,660 "You know all about my teaching" 22 00:01:56,660 --> 00:02:00,900 Does he follow apostolic teaching? 23 00:02:04,900 --> 00:02:08,300 How about way of life? 24 00:02:08,300 --> 00:02:14,161 Purpose? Faith? Patience? Love? Endurance? Sufferings!? 25 00:02:21,900 --> 00:02:27,780 Choose your mentors and then hold the right mentors in high regard. 26 00:02:27,780 --> 00:02:30,460 So in a world where there are so many false ideas or deceptive ideas 27 00:02:30,460 --> 00:02:35,260 or selfish ideas, or anti-God ideas 28 00:02:35,260 --> 00:02:39,988 what do you do to get orientated towards God himself? 29 00:02:42,295 --> 00:02:45,180 Well you go to his word. 30 00:02:45,180 --> 00:02:48,306 You hold on to the Bible. 31 00:02:50,798 --> 00:02:52,820 You're not what you think you are. 32 00:02:52,820 --> 00:02:56,650 But what you think… you are. 33 00:02:58,820 --> 00:03:04,020 So you need to think God's thoughts after him. Isn't that what Paul says? 34 00:03:04,020 --> 00:03:11,260 "Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your… mind." 35 00:03:14,260 --> 00:03:18,420 That means that you must hold on to the Bible. 36 00:03:18,420 --> 00:03:25,403 Not as a magic book, but as a book that teaches you how to think, what to think. 37 00:03:28,127 --> 00:03:32,460 There is this teaching ministry, whether in our home or in small-groups, or with 38 00:03:32,460 --> 00:03:34,700 our children, or one-on-one with a neighbour, 39 00:03:34,700 --> 00:03:37,340 or around the coffee machine at work. 40 00:03:37,340 --> 00:03:40,580 And then evangelistic Bible-studies and adult Bible Classes. 41 00:03:40,580 --> 00:03:46,607 Whatever, constantly constantly teaching, preaching the word of God. 42 00:03:51,100 --> 00:03:55,161 How else shall we respond to this world that is 43 00:03:55,161 --> 00:03:58,100 going off on its own and other directions? 44 00:03:58,100 --> 00:04:01,940 How else shall we prevail in the last days? 45 00:04:01,940 --> 00:04:06,257 We hold out the word to others. 46 00:04:07,175 --> 00:04:09,062 Partager la vie 47 00:04:09,062 --> 00:04:10,446 Ouvrir la Parole 48 00:04:10,446 --> 00:04:12,538 Impacter les générations 49 00:04:13,445 --> 00:04:15,910 « Regarde-moi! » 50 00:04:16,340 --> 00:04:20,512 Avec la voix de Don Carson.