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Question 10
The speaker cites Gandhi (“Your Christians are so unlike your Christ”), ties Titus 2 to the Sermon on the Mount, and says Christians living like Christ would be a testimony; which specific Titus 2/Sermon-on-the-Mount traits would most silence “opponents” in your context, and what relationships or habits would have to die for that kind of credibility to emerge?
Another way to ask: Which Titus 2 or Sermon on the Mount traits would most convince skeptics around you that Christianity is real? What relationships or habits would need to end for that kind of believable life to grow?
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The transcript points to Christlike character—sober-mindedness, integrity in speech, obedience, meekness, mercy, and joy in persecution—as the kind of life that leaves opponents “nothing evil to say.” That credibility would require dying to habits of arguing back, self-protection, and worldly lusts, and instead letting grace train us into holiness.
- He quotes Gandhi: “I like your Christ…Your Christians are so unlike your Christ,” and asks what if people “looked like Christ.”
- He links Titus 2 to Jesus’ teaching: “Titus 2 life is essentially describing the life of a person who’s living the Sermon on the Mount…the Beatitudes.”
- Titus 2 aims at a blameless witness: “sound speech that cannot be condemned…opponent may be ashamed, having nothing evil to say of you.”
- He highlights concrete traits that affect public credibility: “integrity…incorruptibility,” “not slanderers,” “not answering back,” “showing all good fidelity.”
- He says grace trains this lifestyle: “denying ungodliness and worldly lusts…live soberly, righteously, and godly.”