Communicating Christ-like is to necessarily exhibit words of wisdom, justice and righteousness. When the Lord spoke, people were astonished by His words. When the gospel state that His words were authoritative, it meant His words were words of justice, righteousness and wisdom.
We need to be assertive in speech like the way the Lord did. Sometimes we tend to speak according to people, which they would like to hear or be pleased with. However, being assertive is to say what is right but in way that doesn't offend someone.
Before speaking we should always consider if, 'what we say is whether what we believe and what we would do?'. And if yes, then we should say it but with gentleness and firmness. This is exactly what it means to be assertive i.e speaking what we believe and do.
Apostle Paul said,
2 Corinthians 4:13 (New American Standard Bible)
But having the same spirit of faith, according to what is written, "I BELIEVED, THEREFORE I SPOKE," we also believe, therefore we also speak,
May we also learn to be assertive in our speech, speaking only that which we believe and do.
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