The phrase What Would Jesus Do can sound gimmicky. There are wrist bands, shirts, and nick nacks with that phrase, but I recall years ago I actually thought it was very useful not only for a Christian but for a Work person as well.
Then I came across a passage in Calvin's Institutes where he basically endorsed the phrase, or practice. In so many words, but directly.
It makes things simple, and it doesn't just apply to situations and events involving other people, it can apply to waking up in the morning, being alone somewhere, basic tasks. Being in a higher state, two conscious shocks, etc.
What would Jesus do? is emulating Jesus. Maybe this is even more necessary here and now on this spiritual battlefield of earth than in the new heavens and earth because it's a matter of course in the latter, in glorified bodies and a glorified state where we'll each have a universal type along with our unique personalities in a totally different high trust, glorified environment.
We're told in the Bible to conform to Jesus, our Forerunner.
So, rather than being mentally scattered all the time we can be in unity with the simple formula of What would Jesus do? In unity in a Work sense and in a Christian sense.
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Here's what Gemini said when I asked if Calvin said something similar to what would Jesus do:
"While Calvin didn't use that exact phrase, he taught that Christ is the perfect mirror and pattern for all believers.
In the Institutes of the Christian Religion, specifically in Book III, Chapter 6, Calvin argues that the goal of the Christian life is "Christlikeness." He asserts that because God has adopted us as children, we are obligated to represent the character of Christ in our lives.
He writes that the Gospel is not merely a matter of the tongue but of the spirit, and that it must "possess the whole soul" so that the believer is transformed into the image of the one who called them. While the modern phrase "What Would Jesus Do?" (popularized by Charles Sheldon in the 19th century) is a specific moral shorthand, Calvin's theology of union with Christ suggests a similar, though more deeply ontological, requirement for the believer to act as a reflection of Jesus."
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