This time last year, I mentioned six ways to look godly while not growing in your faith—and then spent 2013 battling them, falling for them and finding several other ways too.
So here, for 2014, are six more ways to look great while doing little …
1. Multitask your Quiet Time.
Every day, head off to a quiet place in your house with a Bible for half an hour. It will really encourage anyone you live with, and set a great example. And half an hour is a very long time.
A brief read of the Bible, a quick Lord’s Prayer and you’ve got about 28 minutes left for thinking through some work issues, or writing a mental shopping list, or considering where to go on your next vacation, or even doing some serious meditation with your eyes closed.
2. Ask for prayer without praying yourself.
You’re humbly dependent on God for all things. It’s just that this way, you can delegate your humble dependence to others while you get on with life.
Plus, by sharing prayer requests in this way, others know you are humbly dependent; and they find out about all the unseen ministries you’re part of.
3. Confuse talking about application with actually doing it.
It takes humility and godliness to accept correction and challenge, so make a point each Sunday of telling someone (preferably someone different each week) how the sermon applied to your life and how you need to change.
Then don’t.
Maximum effect, minimal effort. It’s the thought that counts …
