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[Note: <\/strong>This MS is available in larger font on our New Uploads<\/strong> page.]<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Have you ever given thought to the fact that as a Christian, you are a walking \u201cbillboard?\u201d Paul was approaching this idea when he wrote to the Corinthians, \u201cYe are our epistle\u2026known and read of all men\u201d (2 Cor. 3:2). Jesus spoke of this in the Sermon on the Mount: \u201cEven so let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works and glorify your Father Who is in Heaven (Mat. 5:16).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The function of a billboard is to advertise a product or a service. The Christian advertises both. The product is the Gospel and the beautiful life It produces. The service is the helpfulness he extends to his fellowmen and the careful obedience he expresses toward God.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Is it possible that some of us forget this function we are to faithfully fulfill? Sometimes I fear we are advertising for the competition instead of for the Lord. For example, I can\u2019t understand why a Christian boy or girl would want to wear a cap that advertises a brand of beer. Nor can I understand a Christian parent who would allow a child to wear such. It is understandable that those twisted minds who think drinking and drunkenness are smart would delight in parading their foolishness before the world. But how can a Christian do it and be innocent? The T-shirt and sweatshirt slogans need to be carefully considered, also. Is the current Hollywood starlet the ideal of Christian womanhood we want to project? And what about the man or boy who displays obscene images or words on his clothing and thinks he\u2019s really cute? Some girls and women advertise for the adversary with no printed message at all. In fact, the scanty costumes some wear hardly have enough square inches of material in one place to print a message. You\u2019d better believe they are advertising, though.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We advertise in other ways, also. I\u2019ve often thought it might encourage some of us (young and old) to drive more sanely and more courteously if we had a bumper sticker that read, \u201cFollow me to the Church of Christ.\u201d Is it really a good advertisement for Christ to drive like we\u2019re possessed of the devil? You can make additional applications. let us all remember that we are to live in such a way that our lives \u201cadorn the doctrine of God (Tit. 2:10).<\/span><\/p>\n [Note:<\/strong> I wrote this article for, and it was published in the May 26, 1977, edition of the Granbury Gospel, <\/em>weekly bulletin of the Granbury Church of Christ, Granbury, Texas, of which I was editor.<\/span><\/p>\n Attribution:<\/strong> From thescripturecache.com<\/em>; Dub McClish, owner and administrator.<\/span><\/p>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Views: 5[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our New Uploads page.] \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Have you ever given thought to the fact that as a Christian, you are a walking \u201cbillboard?\u201d Paul was approaching this idea when he wrote to the Corinthians, \u201cYe are…<\/p>\n