You’ll notice that most of these meanings pertain to verbal communication. How we communicate with one another is very important. We should be intentional in our efforts to use helpful, sympathetic, encouraging, and appealing words to fellow believers. Read More ...
God has arranged it so that life generally works much better when people submit to legitimate authority. Our country is in so much trouble because many of those in authority are corrupt and abusive, and many people simply refuse to submit to those who have legitimate authority. Read More ...
Peace in the church is largely based on everyone showing a degree of forbearance for everyone else. We must tolerate some differences and weaknesses within the church. Nobody here is perfect, and so we have to bear with one another in Christian love. Read More ...
When members of the church experience particular temptations and struggle with the flesh, the entire church body must respond by supporting or helping the struggling member. We help the fallen member and then hold him up when he’s back on his feet. Read More ...
We can keep on serving others even when they fail us or disappoint us. Serving others is difficult and often disappointing. Others will fail us, but we continue to serve others because, ultimately, we are serving God by serving others. Read More ...
We are to teach, instruct, advise, counsel, warn, and rebuke one another because we care for one another. If we didn’t care, we would not interfere; we would not get involved. Read More ...
Our acceptance of one another is based on Christ’s acceptance of repentant sinners. Salvation is the common ground that unifies believers and brings them into fellowship with one another. If someone is genuinely saved, he should enjoy at least a basic level of acceptance with other believers. Read More ...
The Bible urges Christians to be likeminded and to agree with one another. People working on a project must be likeminded in order to get anything done. Church members in particular ought to be of like faith and practice; we ought to be likeminded. Read More ...
All the parts of the body are different, but all are necessary, and all should be functioning in love, unity, humility, appreciation, and commitment as we serve God by serving one another. Read More ...
The Bible uses the phrase “as a father” three times, and in each case, the authors tell us what fathers do or are supposed to do for their children. So I’d like to look at each of these three verses and see what they have to tell us about the biblical responsibilities of fathers. Read More ...