JUST A LITTLE SIDE NOTES: PLEASE write/create the assignment to sounds as you are ME and, from my perspective as a Christian with a Christian worldview and beliefs. This is urgent. Please keep in mind that I have a 4.0 and need assignments that resemble that for my university. Thank you for your help because your help allows me to use my time to care more for my father and my children during a trialing time in our life right now, your urgency would be greatly appreciated………………………….
PROFESSOR SAID: “As we have already seen in the course, having excellent character plays a significant role in making ethical decisions and living upright moral lives. But how do we acquire excellent character? Aristotle famously said, “We are what we continually do.” That is to say, character is a matter of habit. If I continually lie and steal, and do this habitually, I will become a liar and a thief. What I do becomes my character.
However, if I continually practice justice and mercy (remember Micah 6:8), then my character will become that of a just and merciful person. As with anything that takes practice, say, a sport or a musical instrument, I will do better if I have someone to teach me, someone who serves as a coach or a model of excellent practice. The same is true for our character. Well-known ethicist Stanley Hauerwas suggests this when he says, “We must challenge ourselves to be the kind of community where such a story can be told and manifested by a people formed in accordance with it (“A Story-Formed Community,” in A Community of Character: Toward a Constructive Christian Social Ethic, University of Notre Dame, 1982).”. ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS INSTRUCTIONS INSTRUCTIONS INSTRUCTIONS INSTRUCTIONS: (A.) Think of a Christian with whom you have regular contact and who you recognize as having excellent character. Invite him or her out for coffee or lunch. Tell the person that you admire his or her character, and that you would like to have a conversation around a few informal questions as a part of your Ethics course. Here are some suggested questions. (WRITER please pretend you are me writing and interviewing, and whoever you use to interview pretend is my mother and her name is Debbie). Include these questions and or more.
1. What are your personal core values? 2. How did you arrive at those?
3. What challenges to your core values have you experienced in ministry or the workplace?
4. How would you define character? 5. Who have been your examples?
6. In what ways has the local church helped to form your character?
7. What would you imagine your moral life to be like without the local church?
8. How would you describe your thought process in making an ethical decision?
9. What advice would you give to younger Christians who want to have better character? (B.) Write a response summarizing the responses of your interview partner. Address the question of what difference the Christian community made in the character of the person interviewed
