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Striving for Excellence

by Brett Fuller on April 02, 2018

Sub standard performance is unacceptable and mediocrity is an enemy. A Christian should strive for excellence. If a person is an excellent Christian, he or she can be a really good everything else. A great Christian will be a really good parent practicing patience, proper discipline and love. A great Christian will be a really good spouse: loyal, affectionate and self-sacrificing. A great Christian will be an excellent employee: in early… leaving late, respectful, helpful and diligent.

God extolled the value of commendable living saying in 1Pet 2:12, “Keep your behavior excellent among the Gentiles, so that in the thing in which they slander you as evildoers, they may because of your good deeds, as they observe them, glorify God in the day of visitation.” Peter knew believers were going to be wrongly accused. Therefore he said the best defense was the impenetrable shield of a laudable life. Being so armed would make even our worst enemies honor God as they evidence His commendation through us. So live right and live well…