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Topic 6: WWJD? Question: In what ways is Jesus our model/example for living & in what ways is he not? (Be sure to do more research into the issue. If the group cannot come to a consensus, feel free to have different group members each express their own opinions.)
It seems everywhere you look somebody's wearing one of those WWJD bracelets. And the message is a good one. There's nothing wrong with asking ourselves: What would Jesus do? After all, Christians are challenged to follow Christ's example, and to imitate God in the way we live our lives (Ephesians 5:1-2). Even so, how do we take the message beyond a bracelet and past a fad? How do we make the WWJD message real in the way we talk and act? The answer is simple. Luckily God has given us a book that clearly explains exactly what Jesus would do. The Bible is our instruction manual handed to us from God to give us real life examples of how a christian should act no matter what situation arises. In order for us as christians to understand what Jesus would do and why he would do it, first we need to know some important facts about Jesus.
First of all, we need to understand that Jesus was a human, just like me and you. Sometimes it is hard to believe that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, was a living, breathing human being. Although He was filled with the Holy Spirit, he still went through all the same things that us christians go through today in our own lives. Jesus came to this earth as a baby and left this earth as a man. Therefore, he went through the stages of life just like everyone else. Jesus was a baby, a young boy, a teenager, and a man during some point of his life. He was faced with the same temptations as everyone else was. The only differense is, that the Son of God was perfect, he knew exactly how to deal with each of these situations in the way that God would've wanted. There are multiple examples throughout the Bible where Jesus is faced with a tempting or problematic situation. God chose to put his Son through these situations in order to show us the proper was to handle them. I guarantee you that no matter what problem you are going through in your life that there is a perfect example in the Word of God that will guide you through it.