"Peoples understanding of who Jesus is, directly related to who we are."

This is why we are looking at character. We began last week to examine ourselves asking the question,

"Am I a good Christ?"  

Our small groups opened up the Gospels and wrote down the Characteristics of Christ.

This week we discussed the forces or obstacles to having Christs' character. 

We talked about the small compromises we make in our daily decisions that begin to affect our character. We draw a line in the sand,  and then we make small compromises and creep towards that line, eventually crossing it and then making a new one.  At the end we often find ourselves have done things we never indented to doing, and find ourselves looking nothing like Christ.

People often drift away from God not because they don't theologically believe He exists, but because their current behavior.  Often we choose to change our beliefs before we change our behavior.  This often begins with small compromises that begin to creep in our character. 

In small groups we took this principle and applied to the music we listen to.

Groups opened up the scriptures and began to ask questions, like, "is there a such thing as Christian music?" 

Examine your own life? Are they're areas where compromise has crept in?   

Who you are is important!  It will affect who people think Jesus is.