Building Blocks Today's Three-minute Bible Study Print, Study and Apply Title: Building Blocks ----------------------- Date: 9/25/1999 Keyword: "corruption" "lust" Welcome to eXXit, the web site designed to help you stand strong in the face of sexual temptation. Passage: 2 Peter 1:5-7* 5. Now for this very reason also, applying all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence, and in your moral excellence, knowledge; 6. and in your knowledge, self-control, and in your self-control, perseverance, and in your perseverance, godliness; 7. and in your godliness, brotherly kindness, and in your brotherly kindness, love. Questions 1. Peter lists eight qualities that the believer is to possess. What significance to you see to "faith" heading the list and "love" ending the list?   2. What significance would you draw from "moral excellence" being placed immediately after "faith" and immediately before "knowledge"?   Practical help Peter is so helpful! By listing the building blocks of Christian character in the order above, he lets us know that 1. Faith is the beginning point for growth for the Christian. 2. Love is the end goal for all Christian growth. Why would we agree not to click onto a Web site that offers porn or enter a chat room where the language is explicitly sexual? It is because we believe (faith) that staying away from pornography is morally excellent and because we believe (faith) that not clicking onto that site will aid us in our quest to become powerfully loving Christians. And you know what? It is true!! eXXit homepage Index of three-minute studies Copyright 1999 by eXXit *"Scripture taken from the NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE®, © Copyright The Lockman Foundation 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995. Used by permission."