Christian Life.

Christians should ex¬press the Christian spirit in every relationship of life: in the church, the home, and the world in general. We are the light of the world, the salt of the earth (Mart. 5:13-16). We are to walk in the light as he is in the light (1 John 1:7). The resurrected Christ lives in us and expresses himself through us (Eph. 4:22-24). Like our Lord, we should go about doing good (Acts 10:38). We should measure our lives by nothing less than the perfection that is in the Father (Mart. 5:48). Any gifts we may have are from the Lord, and we are responsible to him for what we do with them (Luke 19:12-26; 1 Cot. 12:8-11).

We should so mature in the Lord that the fruit of the Spirit (Gal. 5:22-23), much of which is clearly social, will flow increasingly and natural¬ly from our lives. We should not remain “babes in Christ” (1 Cot. 3:1-2); but should mature so we can teach others (Heb. 5:11-14). Righteousness, conformity to God’s moral law, is a concept with profound social dimensions which is greatly empha¬sized in the Bible and which characterizes the Christian life (Amos 5:24; Mart. 5:6; 2 Tim. 2:22).