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It's obvious from reading Scripture that we need examples to follow. Paul told the Corinthians in 1 Corinthians 11:1, "Be imitators of me, just as I also am of Christ." In Hebrews 13:7, it says, "Remember those who led you, who spoke the word of God to you; and considering the result of their conduct, imitate their faith." It's rather humbling to realize that as we come to Christ and as we enter into the Christian life that we really don't intrinsically, intuitively know what we are supposed to do with that and what Scripture does is tell us to look for examples, look for that which would be a pattern, a model, which you could follow and train and condition your heart to live in like manner. Scripture calls us, in a sense, to be copycats. I realize that's it's more romantic in an American sense to be a self-made man and to say, "I earned this," and as Frank Sinatra used to sing, "I did it my way," but that's not a noble virtue in the Christian life. The Christian life is to be one of imitation, of patterning after something else that is ahead of us, that is beyond us, that gives us a way to aspire to greatness and to aspire after a higher level than we would have attained on our own. Be imitators, it says...