Our Mission: To Make More and Better Disciples
For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love. —2 Peter 1:5-7 (ESV)
Virtue: Courageously Living According to God’s Highest Standards
1. Virtue Starts in the
but I do as the Father has commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. —John 14:31 (ESV)
I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. —Romans 12:1 (ESV)
2. Virtue Chooses
And Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone. —Mark 10:18 (ESV)
I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you. —Psalm 119:11 (ESV)
3. Virtue Requires
For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. —2 Peter 1:8 (ESV)
Therefore let those who suffer according to God’s will entrust their souls to a faithful Creator while doing good. —1 Peter 4:19 (ESV)