CHRISTIAN CONSERVATISM: My goal is to explain to you how to revolutionize your thinking. This will allow you to determine God’s will much more easily and accurately.
By incorporating biblical truths into your life, numerous positive things will occur. Your internal peace will be enhanced exponentially, and you will sleep better at night. Because your internal peace will improve, you will exhibit more Christ-like character qualities. Because you are more Christ-like, your behavior around others—at home, at work, and in your community—will be transformed. Because your life has been transformed, you will also become a better, more effective citizen.
Developing internal character qualities that manifest the fruit of God’s Holy Spirit is what the Christian life is all about, but for your fruit to have value, it must be disseminated to others. We do not live in a vacuum. Life flows through us.
For your life to have any transformational impact, your Christ-like character qualities must be manifested to the people you touch daily.
By changing ourselves, the impact we have will change the dynamics in our families, our churches, our neighborhoods, and ultimately in our nation. When this happens, we become the salt and light to the world we are supposed to be. Once we become the men and women of God we claim to be, the godly fruit that flows from us will be effortless. You, being you, will be a good thing, which is exactly what God wants for your life.
This is how we can change our society in ways that have lasting impact. We do it by changing who we are, one Christian at a time. This is how our forefathers did it, and we still live in the shadow of their blessing. This can happen again.
As citizens in the public arena, we are mandated to be as “wise as serpents but as gentle as doves.” The way to accomplish this isn’t to become strident, caustic, or militant. This doesn’t work. It’s counterproductive. You can see this by the impact Antifa and BLM is having. They may be gaining some followers, but they are embittering millions of others.
—Jack Watts
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