One of the great\u00adest chal\u00adlenges we face as believ\u00aders is liv\u00ading authen\u00adti\u00adcal\u00adly Chris\u00adt\u00adian lives. It\u2019s very easy to be spir\u00adi\u00adtu\u00adal on Sun\u00adday and at offi\u00adcial reli\u00adgious func\u00adtions, but it\u2019s much hard\u00ader to study in a Chris\u00adt\u00adian way, to work with a Chris\u00adt\u00adian work eth\u00adic, to con\u00adduct our\u00adselves at the din\u00adner table in a man\u00adner that pleas\u00ades Christ.<\/p>\n
But such things are the very essence of our faith.<\/p>\n
If our faith does not man\u00adi\u00adfest in the small things, it\u2019s vir\u00adtu\u00adal\u00adly irrel\u00ade\u00advant how it man\u00adi\u00adfests in the big things.<\/p>\n
Why all these thoughts on holis\u00adtic Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty? This blog entry dis\u00adcussing ethics among Chris\u00adt\u00adian busi\u00adness\u00adpeo\u00adple<\/a>. You ought to read it.<\/p>\n And then you ought to ask your\u00adself whether or not you\u2019re dif\u00adfer\u00adent as a stu\u00addent because of your faith in Jesus. If you\u2019re not, then you\u2019ve not ful\u00adly inter\u00adnal\u00adized your faith.<\/p>\n What do I mean? Here are some off-the-cuff reflec\u00adtions on what it means to be a stu\u00addent to the glo\u00adry of Jesus: There are tons more, but these are a few that pop into my head\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One of the great\u00adest chal\u00adlenges we face as believ\u00aders is liv\u00ading authen\u00adti\u00adcal\u00adly Chris\u00adt\u00adian lives. It\u2019s very easy to be spir\u00adi\u00adtu\u00adal on Sun\u00adday and at offi\u00adcial reli\u00adgious func\u00adtions, but it\u2019s much hard\u00ader to study in a Chris\u00adt\u00adian way, to work with a Chris\u00adt\u00adian work eth\u00adic, to con\u00adduct our\u00adselves at the din\u00adner table in a man\u00adner that \u2026 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading \u201cA Fail\u00adure to Inter\u00adnal\u00adize Faith\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-integration"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-du","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n* You actu\u00adal\u00adly seek to mas\u00adter the mate\u00adr\u00adi\u00adal.
\n* You love truth and seek it pas\u00adsion\u00adate\u00adly, even going beyond the bounds of an assign\u00adment to acquire it.
\n* You do assigned work whether your pro\u00adfes\u00adsor will check it or not.
\n* You seek to make knowl\u00adedge prac\u00adti\u00adcal (turn it into wis\u00addom).
\n* You\u2019re a plea\u00adsure to have in class (both for the prof and oth\u00ader stu\u00addents).
\n* When you dis\u00adagree with the prof you do so in an agree\u00adable way.<\/p>\n