How easily and contentedly we speak of Jesus Christ as our example. Do we realize what it means? If we did, it would revolutionize our life. Do we begin to know our Bible as He did? Do we begin to pray as He did? How thoughtful He was for others, how patient toward dullness, how quiet under insult! Think of what it meant for Him to take a basin and towel like a slave and wash the disciples’ feet! Do we stoop to serve? Can anyone say of us, as was said of Him, that we go about “doing good?” Think of His words, servants of His, “I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.” “Christlike” is a word often on our lips. Do not speak it too lightly? It is the heart of God’s predestination. It is our high calling.
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Quintus Florens Tertullian

Quintus Florens Tertullian

Quintus Florens Tertullian
160-220
North African defender of the faith. Tertullian was born of heathen parents in Carthage, Africa. He studied law and lived an exceedingly sinful life until he received the Lord Jesus Christ at the age of 30. He became an intense, hardhitting defender of the fundamentals of the Christian faith against the traditions of Romanism. He joined the Montanists, a group of premillennial, Bible-believing Christians, and spent the rest of his life writing and preaching primitive Christianity as opposed to Romanism with its ecclesiastical traditions and ceremonies contrary to the Scriptures.

ARTIST’S NOTE: The cool colors designate the objective, scholarly approach of the man. Tertullian is shown with a manuscript scroll of the Holy Scriptures.

Ruckman ’66