As you can see, the above calls for adaptability on your part ... the ability to change your behaviour and methods of communication to adapt to the needs of a particular person at a particular time.
To be adaptable, you need the following attitudes:
- a sense of security and worth in Christ
But God demonstrates His own love toward us,
in that while we were yet sinners,
Christ died for us. Rom 5:8
But as many as received Him,
to them He gave the right to become children of God,
even to those who believe in His name John 1:12
in Him you have been made complete ... Col 2:10
For I am convinced that neither death, nor life,
nor angels, nor principalities,
nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,
nor height, nor depth,
nor any other created thing,
will be able to separate us from the love of God,
which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Rom 8:38-39
This means that no matter what others (or you) think, say about or do to you (yourself) will not change your identity in Christ. -
a humble attitude in dealing with others
3 Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit,
but with humility of mind regard one another
as more important than yourselves;
4 do not merely look out
for your own personal interests,
but also for the interests of others.
5 Have this attitude in yourselves
which was also in Christ Jesus,
6 who, although He existed in the form of God,
did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped,
7 but emptied Himself,
taking the form of a bond-servant,
and being made in the likeness of men.
8 Being found in appearance as a man,
He humbled Himself by becoming obedient
to the point of death, even death on a cross. Phil 2:3-8