"Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ."
I do not think that I would be comfortable ever making this statement myself. But the undeniable fact is that we are imitators by nature, and we will be imitated by others whether we ask for it or not. Therefore, we ought to endeavor to make our lives worth imitating. And the only that we can do that is by imitating Christ.
But to imitate Christ, we must first know what He is like. So learn of Christ. See Him foreshadowed in the Old Testament. Watch Him minister in flesh in the gospels. Listen to people testify of Him in the book of Acts. Understand more of what He did through the epistles. And learn what He will do in the future in the book of Revelation.
And as you learn more about Him, as you draw into a closer relationship with Him, be like Him. That doesn't mean that we gather twelve disciples and travel around the holy land performing miracles. It means that we pattern our manner of behavior after His character. We emulate His sacrificial love, His patient endurance, and His many other qualities (all of which are honorable).
If we do this, it will be a good thing when people pattern their lives after our own.
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