This is a slide for the first movement

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Slide 1

• This is a slide for the first movement

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How are you being true to yourself?

• Our challenge as Christians is to love God,
• Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
• To love others and to love ourselves, as Jesus
  did.
• When we do so we act in the best interest of our
• true self and in the best interest of others.

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How are you being true to yourself?

• Three aspects of what it means to be human We
  are . . .
• Rational beings with the ability to reason and
  think
• Social beings created to live in relationship
  with others
• Free beings with the ability to make choices

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Living truthful lives

• Jesus proclaimed that he came into the world to
  testify to the truth (John 1837)
• Throughout history, millions of Christians have
  given their lives in witness to the truth, who is
  Jesus Christ.
• Martyrdom is the ultimate commitment to living a
  truthful life in the Lord.
• The Eighth Commandment states, You shall not
  bare false witness against your neighbor.

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Living truthful lives

• Lying is a direct offense against the truth.
• Lying includes speaking or acting against the
  truth
• or deceiving others from knowing the truth.
• Lying hurts people by weakening
• the trust in a relationship.

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Living truthful lives

• Forms of lying
• Perjury is lying under oath
• Duplicity is saying or doing one thing and acting
  the opposite
• Dissimulation is concealing the truth with the
  intention to deceive
• Hypocrisy is claiming to have moral standards but
  living otherwise

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Living truthful lives

• Silence or discreet language may be the
  appropriate choice to uphold respect or safety,
  or for the common good of another.
• Keeping secrets and confidences is not the same
  as lying.
• Professional confidences are kept between
• Doctor and patient
• Lawyer and client
• Priest and confessor
• If someone learns about anothers plan to do harm
  to his or herself, or to another, they have the
  obligation out of love to seek help.

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Living truthful lives

• Gossip is the unnecessary sharing of personal
  information about another which can cause harm.
• Gossip does violence to another person.
• Because of todays media, gossip can spread very
  quickly.
• We are obliged to not join in on gossip.
• It is our obligation to stop the spread of
  gossip.