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Christian Integrity

Christian Integrity. Your Logo Here. (20) Christian Integrity . Integrity of heart We need to be committed to character more than accomplishments in ministry Accept trials as method that God uses to build character in us

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Christian Integrity

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  1. Christian Integrity Your Logo Here

  2. (20) Christian Integrity • Integrity of heart • We need to be committed to character more than accomplishments in ministry • Accept trials as method that God uses to build character in us • Be convinced that Integrity is a matter of the inner life and not just how we behave on the outside

  3. (19) Christian Integrity • Warren Wiersbe “Apart from Character, Christian ministry is only religious activity or even worse, religious business • We are either bridges or hindrances for the gospel. There is no third possibility • Leadership, integrity, evangelism are strongly inter linked • The dictionary meaning of integrity is completeness or wholeness

  4. (18) Christian Integrity • A genuine leader is a person of integrity of heart (Psa 78.72) And David shepherded them with integrity of heart with skilful hands he led them • How does God build His leader? By desiring that His children should move to completeness (Eph 4. 12-13) To prepare God’s people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up, until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature attaining to the whole measure of fullness of Christ

  5. (17) Christian Integrity • The challenge of personal maturity with God • (Robert Clinton) When Christ calls leaders to Christian Ministry, He intends to develop them to their full potential, Each of us in leadership is responsible to continue developing in accordance with God’s processing all the time • God processes a leader in order to bring forth completeness through the method of trials or integrity checks

  6. (16) Christian Integrity • Attitude to meet a crisis • (Andrew Murray) He brought me here, It’s by His will I am in this difficult place. In that place I will rest. He will keep me here in His love and give me grace to behave as His child. Then He will make the trial a blessing, teaching me the lessons He intends me to learn. In His good time He will bring me out again – how and when He knows. So let me say, “I am here by God’s appointment, in His keeping, under His training, for His time”

  7. (15) Christian Integrity • (Robert Clinton) Integrity checks are God’s vital processing items in a leaders development and growth • Checks are allowed by God in to our lives to mature us and not to destroy us • Abraham passing an integrity check (Gen 22. 1-2) Some time later, God tested Abraham, He said to him, Abraham! Here I am he replied. Then God said, take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love and go to the mountain of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering …

  8. (14) Christian Integrity • The Israelites falling integrity check – the spiritual stagnation fall out (Ex 17. 1-2) The whole Israelite community set out from desert of Sin, traveling from place to place as the Lord commanded. They camped at Rephidim but there was no water for the people to drink. So they quarreled with Moses and said, “Give us water to drink” Moses replied, “why do you quarrel with me? Why do you put the Lord to test?

  9. (13) Christian Integrity • (1 Cor 10.9) We should not test the Lord, as some of them did and were killed by snakes • Ministry effectiveness – An effective ministry flows out of Character (being right with God) and not out of external activity alone • Why is heart integrity so vital? Leadership before God is based on the Godly desires of the inner life and not on external qualities (1 Sa 16.7) The Lord said unto Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance of his height, for I have rejected him. The Lord does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart

  10. (12) Christian Integrity • God is searching our thoughts and motives ( Chr 28.9) And you, my son Solomon, acknowledge the God of your father, and serve him with wholehearted devotion and with a willing mind, for the Lord searches every heart and understands every motive behind the thoughts. If you seem him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will reject you forever

  11. (11) Christian Integrity • Are you involved in Christian activity or you involved in ministry? • Are you focusing on maturity with God? Are you conscious that God is watching you inner life and are you surrendering to him at that level? Integrity of the heart • Realize the dangers of the ego trap • Find way to victory over the ego trap • Experience the joy of living for others

  12. (10) Christian Integrity • The ego trap has destroyed individuals, families, organizations and Churches • The self or the ego has a powerful control over our personality • If the ego is not being dealt with then there can be no discipleship • We make our choices to let our ego to take the better of us and we are not victims of our ego

  13. (9) Christian Integrity • Every relationship stimulus is an integrity check (1 Pet 3.9) Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult but with blessing because to this you are called so that you may inherit a blessing • Application of values gives rise to good behavior (Mat 7.24) Therefore every one, who hears these words of mine and puts them in practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock • (Psa 119. 105) Your word is a lamp un to my feet and a light for my path

  14. (8) Christian Integrity • The only solution to deal with the ego (Gal 2.20) “I have been crucified with Christ. And I no longer live, but Christ lives in me, the life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me • (John 12.24) I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it produces many seeds • (Luke 9.23) He said to them all, “if any one would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me”

  15. (7) Christian Integrity • The crucifying of the ego is an ongoing experience • The ego has a property to resurrect • A leader intending to mature before god rejects ruthlessly the desire to want any form of recognition for himself or for his ministry but is focused on fulfilling God’s purposes for himself and for the ministry that is entrusted to him

  16. (6) Christian Integrity • Examples from our daily lives of how the “” or ego demands recognition and how the “I” reacts when not recognized • (2 Cor 4.10,11) We always carry around our body the death of Jesus, so that life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body. For we who are alive are always being given over to death for Jesus sake, so that his life may be revealed in our mortal body

  17. (5) Christian Integrity • Only when I have learnt to correctly handle the “I” will I have a genuine concern for others • Are you willing to look at each ego trap as an integrity check? • Are you prepared to take the ego to the cross every time the ego wants imporantance?

  18. (4) Christian Integrity • Integrity of the heart – choice • Recognize the subtle but vicious trap of materialism • Make the right choices in your life • Choices that we make in life indicate the intent of the heart • “Looking after ourselves” could be the secret agenda of the heart whereas outwardly we may be claiming to be involved in Christian Ministry and the Lord is not impressed

  19. (3) Christian Integrity • We have to give account to God for the intent of the heart (Heb 4.12, 13) For the word of god is living and active, sharper than ay double edged sword; it penetrates even to diving soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. • Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight. Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give account

  20. (2) Christian Integrity • Choices in the life of the leader must emerge out of a desire to fulfill God’s purposes and not out of a desire to satisfy personal need or personal advantages • What was the temptation that the Lord faced in Mat 4. 1-4) • It was the trap to live for Bread and not for the Word • There are two options that will confront us in all the choices that we make in life

  21. (1) Christian Integrity • Bread Option • Word Option • A leader desiring to mature before God will deliberately choose the Word option • The Lord is concerned about our ‘bread needs’ but He expects us to be concerned to seek first the kingdom of God (Mat 6.32, 33) For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly father knows that you need them, But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well

  22. (0) Christian Integrity • A leader who consistently makes bread choices will soon reach a stage when bread will make choices for him • Are you willing to check your motives for the choices that you make in life? • Will you now make choices for the Word and not for the bread? • Integrity in the area of sexual relationships….

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