Community requires commitment.
Only the Holy Spirit can create real fellowship between believers, but he cultivates it with
the choices and commitments we make.
Real fellowship depends on frankness.
Frankness is not a license to say anything you want,
wherever and whenever you want. It is not rudeness. The Bible tells us there is
a right time and a right way to do everything.
Thoughtless words leave lasting wounds.
God tells us to speak each other in the church as
loving members: “Never use harsh words when you correct an older man, but talk
to him as if he were your father. Talk to younger men as if they were your
brothers, older women as if they were your mothers, and younger women as if
they were your sisters.”
God said,
“I will show kindness to anyone to whom I want to show
kindness, and I will show mercy to anyone to whom I want to show mercy.”
Romans 9:15.
(Then who are we, after all human beings have the
rights to hurt the believers by using wounding words? This attitude of such people
will surely destroy the fellowship-Living witness.)
Amen.
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