We often hear the passage where Paul tells the Corinthians to imitate him as he imitates Christ, but often we forget the context. In 1 Corinthians 4 Paul gives this list of the way he responds to things:
To the present hour we hunger and thirst, we are poorly dressed and buffeted and homeless, 12and we labor, working with our own hands. When reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we endure; 13when slandered, we entreat. We have become, and are still, like the scum of the world, the refuse of all things.
While reading this I felt bad about some of these that I struggle with, but he then goes on to say:
14I do not write these things to make you ashamed, but to admonish you as my beloved children.
He doesn't write it to condemn the Corinthians, but rather to exemplify Christ-like living.
Who do you know living like this that you could learn to imitate?
Are you living in a way that those who would imitate you would be imitating Christ?
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