The Character Trait Journal by Menzies Winston

Author:Menzies, Winston [Menzies, Winston]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9781498486118
Publisher: Xulon Press
Published: 2016-11-30T05:00:00+00:00

HEART TO STAND ALONE, A — Study start date: ________ Finish date: ________

Many times in life, things on this planet have had the ability to go south so quickly and badly it is totally astounding. Even more amazingly, on those occasions, you will find that most of the time no one around you is willing to take a stand for the truth. Much of the reason for this is the way we were all made. We humans, being gregarious, have a tremendous need for acceptance by the group. It is an incredibly powerful motivating force. One of the hardest things for us to do is to elect, for the sake of truth or what is right, to stand against the group or against the entire world if need be, for that matter. Surely, part of the reason is that a decision to stand also means you will likely face ridicule, rejection, repudiation, persecution and will probably be ostracized from the group.

Standing alone against all of society takes great courage. That kind of courage usually comes primarily from two things: strength of conviction (grace) and a decision to stand in life for what is right no matter the cost. Though not evidenced much today, it is vitally important. It is said, “If you don’t stand for something, you will probably fall for anything.” Besides, how we live is how we die and how we die is how we live. We also know cowards die a thousand deaths but the brave only once.

Years ago a friend handed me a copy of an article torn out of a magazine called The Teaching Home.8 It was about a young scribe named Athanasius who lived long ago. This little article has had a most profound effect on my life. This young scribe had no credentials, no position, no external traits that made him noteworthy and certainly had not been to seminary He, seemingly, had nothing that would distinguish him as someone important. He was just a scribe—one who, day after day, was trusted only with copying text, word for word. It was not given to him to decide doctrine, judge, teach or preach—just copy text. I think I have read this little article a thousand times and it has worked an incredible work in my heart over the years. I am certainly no Athanasius but I sure want to be.

DAD Contra Mundum

“A long time ago there was a pernicious fellow named Arius who troubled the church. He taught that our Lord Jesus Christ was not the eternal God, the Second Person of the Trinity, but rather was a created being, not the same essence with the father. Needless to say, this foul heresy, if accepted by the church, would have destroyed Christianity, if that were possible.

The Council of Nicea met in 325 A.D. to resolve the challenges put forth by Arius. More than 300 leaders of the church gathered. Some were followers of theheretic Arius; others held to the orthodox doctrine. Arius and his disciples

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