On Christian Character

            “Everyone is borne with a disposition mixed with the heredity of moral pollution and family distinctiveness. After the child is born, the age in which he lives endeavors to weave around him a certain personality. This comes about when the individual conforms to an age. Frequently, the uniqueness of his depraved disposition is swallowed up in the current vogue of the personality, style, mood, error, and spirit of the age.

            “God has an entirely different purpose in His will for the Christian who has been born again. The pollution of Adam, the heredity of disposition, and the personality of the age are to give way to the transforming power of the New Birth in separation, purity, power, prayer, Godliness, and maturity that reaches fruition in Christian character. Too many professing Christians fail to manifest consistency, loyalty, trustworthiness, love, determination, ethics, prayer, honesty, purity, humility, obedience, assurance, victory, honor, integrity, boldness, strength, or character.

            “What would be a workable definition of Christian character? To me, Christian character is a life of thoughts, attitudes, acts, habits, and practices which are dominated by the principle of the Word of God, which are brought into the life through the miracle of the New Birth, and which seeks to exalt the Lord Jesus Christ in all things.

            “In times like this there is a great need for godly Character!”

Dr. O. Talmadge Spence, Th. D.

May 17, 1980 “Joseph & his Brethren”

            Dr. O T. Spence was the founder and president of Foundations Bible College, was his pastor till his passed away on July 17, 2000. The College is now pastorate by Dr. H. T. Spence, his son, who is now the president of this Biblical College. If you like to know more of this wonderful ministry, please go Foundations Bible College