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Today we continue a new series we hope will be helpful to you in your pursuit of faith and

fruitfulness in the duties God has put before you.

In this series entitled On Being Human, we're working through four parts of what it means to

be human.

Four areas of life where a man or a woman can pursue excellence, fruitfulness, virtue, and honor.

The physical, the spiritual, the social, the vocational. In the physical, we're talking about the body,

physical fitness, nutrition, appearance, and generally taking care of ourselves in such a way as to

be able to do our duties

in the body with joy. In the spiritual, we're talking about personal piety and virtue, spiritual

disciplines in the whole-souled pursuit of the life of faith. In the social, we're talking about

social graces, emotional aptitude, friendliness, hospitality, and more. The art and science of

being a normal and

likable person who is not super weird and awkward. And in the vocational, we're talking about

achievement, about pursuing excellence in your work, whatever it is that God has put in front of you.

In the last episode in this series, we began to consider the first category, the physical,

talking about the body. We presented and defended

a thesis that Christians ought to exercise discipline in seeking bodily strength, health, and beauty

for God's glory in the good of their people. Now that's all well and good to say, but the much

bigger question is the simple, how? How do we seek bodily strength, health, and beauty, particularly

in the midst of a rich, full Christian life? After all, most of us have many duties in front of us

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