112. Should “What would Jesus do?” be the standard for Christian conduct and practice today?

Should “What would Jesus do?” be the standard for Christian conduct and practice today?

It certainly should, and it is the only standard. We read in 1 John 2:6 : “He that saith he abideth in Him ought himself so to walk even as He walked.” The standard of Christian living is not the Ten Commandments, it is not even the Golden Rule—it is Jesus Himself. Our Lord Jesus gave to His disciples a new law including the old but going far beyond it. That new law was this: “That ye love one another as I have loved you, that ye also love one another” (John 13:34). If we would study the life of Jesus and see what He did under the circumstances in which He lived when here on earth, under the Spirit’s teaching we can decide what He would do if He were in our circumstances today. The question for the Christian never is: “What do other Christians do?” or “What do other Christians tell me to do?” but “What would Jesus have me do, and what would Jesus Himself do?”