{"id":3583,"date":"2021-08-09T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=3583"},"modified":"2021-08-03T15:47:12","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T21:47:12","slug":"performance-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=3583","title":{"rendered":"Performance &#8211; 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=3578\">Yesterday<\/a> I was making the point that training is one thing, but actually carrying out that training in real life &#8211; <strong><em>Performance<\/em><\/strong> &#8211;  is another. There are applications in sports and music, of course, and with respect to the Christian life, I wrote:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>No one cares how many Bible verses you\u2019ve memorized if you\u2019re rude to the checkout clerk in the grocery store.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That application to real life involves the fruit of the Spirit (see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Galatians+5%3A22-23&amp;version=ESV\">Galatians 5.22, 23<\/a>). Or, what Mark Greene in his book <a href=\"https:\/\/smile.amazon.com\/Fruitfulness-Frontline-Making-Difference-Where\/dp\/1783591250\/ref=sr_1_2?crid=QG9Z6IQWSAM3&amp;dchild=1&amp;keywords=fruitfulness+on+the+frontline&amp;qid=1628026148&amp;sprefix=Fruitfulness+on+the+%2Caps%2C255&amp;sr=8-2\">Fruitfulness on the Frontline<\/a> calls &#8220;Modeling Godly Character.&#8221; I have written about this before: a framework for fruitfulness &#8211; or &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=409\">How can God use me today?<\/a>&#8221; Mark calls them the 6 Ms:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Model godly character<\/li><li>Make good work<\/li><li>Minister grace and love<\/li><li>Mold culture<\/li><li>Be a Mouthpiece for truth and justice<\/li><li>Be a Messenger of the gospel<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s not a checklist, but it is useful to remember as we &#8220;train for godliness&#8221; that we <em>train<\/em> (<strong><em>Practice<\/em><\/strong> in this blog series) for <strong><em>godliness<\/em><\/strong> &#8211; and that godliness can be shown in many ways. Tomorrow I&#8217;ll share a perspective on Molding Culture and Being a Mouthpiece for truth and justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>And let our people learn to devote themselves to good works, so as to help cases of urgent need, and not be unfruitful. (Titus 3.14, ESV)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I was making the point that training is one thing, but actually carrying out that training in real life &#8211; Performance &#8211; is another. There are applications in sports and music, of course, and with respect to the Christian life, I wrote: No one cares how many Bible verses you\u2019ve memorized if you\u2019re rude &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=3583\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Performance &#8211; 2<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8X9bo-VN","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3584,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3583\/revisions\/3584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}