When we are who we should be, we will tend to do what we should do. If you haven’t read the previous post about assessing Christ-like character, please do so as those traits lay the groundwork for assessing conduct.
Important Considerations When Assessing Christ-like Conduct and Conversation
1) To be Christ-like, both our conduct and conversation need to be governed by love.
… walk in the way of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. (Eph. 5:2)
2) Christ-like conduct and conversation is full of both grace and truth.
The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth. (Jn. 1:14)
3) Christ-like conduct shows itself in servanthood.
In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death – even death on a cross! (Phil. 1:5-8)
4) To have Christ-like conduct we must maintain integrity.
… we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are – yet he did not sin. (Heb. 4:15)
The Steering the Church Toward Christ-like Character Leadership Guide adds some brief input under each point of consideration. It also looks at how Christlikeness manifests itself in 22 other leadership tasks and responsibilities.
All Posts about Assessments
- The Right Standard for Assessments
- Using Assessment Results in Ways that Line Up
- Guard Body Life When Doing Assessments
- Great Commission: Encompassing or Complicated?
- Assessment Questions from the Great Commission
- Christ-like Standard in Assessments
- Assessing Christ-like Character
- Assessing Christ-like Conduct & Conversation
- Assessments Leading to Eternal Results?
- Involvement of the Holy Spirit in the Assessment Process
- Pulling on Spiritual Gifting in the Assessment Process
- Alignment with the Gospel in the Assessment Process
- Prayer in the Assessment Process
- Do Assessments Really Fit into God’s Character and Ways?
- Concerned with His Name in the Assessment Process?
- Use of Spiritual Weapons in the Assessment Process
- Need for Grace in the Assessment Process