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Christian Job Description
1. Have peace with One Another
Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another.
2. Love One Another
This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
3. Be affectionate towards One Another
Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;
4. Do not judge One AnotherLet us not therefore judge one anotherany more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother's way.
5. Receive One AnotherWherefore receive ye one another, as Christ also received us to the glory of God.
6. Admonish One Another
And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brethren, that ye also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.
7. Salute One Another
Salute one another with an holy kiss. The churches of Christ salute you.
8. Care for One Another
That there should be no schism in the body; but that] the members should have the same care one for another.
9. Greet One AnotherGreet one another with an holy kiss.
10. Serve One Another
For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
11. Do not bite and devour thereby being consumed of One Another
But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.
12. Restore and bear the burdens of One Another
Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.
13. Forebear One Another
With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;
14. Be kind to One Another
And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.
15. Forgive One AnotherForbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also [do] ye.
16. Teach and admonish One Another
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
17. Comfort One Another
Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
18. Edify One Another
Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.
19. Exhort One Another
But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
20. Consider One Another
And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:
21. Confess to and pray for One Another
Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
22. Be hospitable and minister to One Another. Use hospitality one to another without grudging. As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.
AMEN
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| April 17, 2009 |
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1 Peter 4:8 Above all (or most important of all), keep your love for one another at full strength, since love covers a multitude of sins.
I love the exhortations you wrote Michael...the above one is one of my favorites in the Word...I want to share why...There were 3 navigators who made it through WWII after 2 tours of duty in all of the Untied States and my Step-Dad was one of them. When he tried to sign up for a 3rd they sent him home for awhile (no one made it through 3 tours, and somehow they found out he had illegally signed up for the War and started flying when he was just 16 years of age) He went back after the invasion into Germany and helped to rescue the Jews from the concentration camps. He could not talk about the sights he saw in those camps without crying....Once home as a war hero he fell madly in love with the Governor's daughter, they married and had two boys. He was very well known in public and political spheres, and a brillant man in his own right. My Dad soon turned to alcohol and other women to ease his pain, he would often go home in drunken rages and beat his sons in the middle of the night....He found himself divorced, unable to see his children, and destitute. He had lost everything down to his own construction company. BUT it was this that brought him to salvation :)...He married my Mom a destitute Christian man (that is an oxymoron but you know how I mean it), trying to climb out of the pit..I was sent for from my Grandmother's home where I had been staying for quite some time...I came home an angry, terrified, little girl....I was truly broken myself from what had happened at the hands of my biological father...BUT something happened with my (Step) Daddy and me...He loved me at full strength, even in all my mess, and I could not help but to love him back...at full strength...He taught me of the love of Christ and I felt it in a palpable way...many of you on here know parts of our story....but I started to learn something at a very young age...that love truly does cover a multitude of sin...My Dad readily confessed to all of us the kind of husband and father he had been in his first marriage, I felt sorry for my step-brothers but I also knew that he was not the same man that acted in that way....and that he would never be again...although his past made my mother and siblings leery of him and untrusting, I was not, I knew this man had been transformed by Christ. I got so many benefits from that relationship that my mother and siblings never got to partake in....and it was simply because I did not see him as a sinner but as a man who was redeemed...I loved my daddy fiercely...I can honestly say if I had not had that experience I would have NO HOPE for a future, I would NOT be the kind of mother, friend, and human I am today...I know for a fact I would have remained destitute....so not only does love cover a multitude of sins but it can transform our lives as well...I found we have to keep our love at FULL STRENGTH for one another to get there...This was one of the MOST IMPORTANT decisions I ever made in my life and I am glad I took the risk to fully love....I think we really need to ask ourselves are we loving others in the body at full strength OR are we only partially partaking? Are we only partially partaking in our love of Christ for that matter...if that is the case we won't get the full benefit of those relationships....Love is not about a feeling but it is what 1 Corth 13 says it is...Love "feels" risky and for some it is terrifying...BUT in my eyes we all should be more terrified at not loving fully...I want those benefits of a full love, they are life changing...if Satan can keep us in the body from loving one another...then He continues to win this battle...
I and a friend of mine started to do Bible study with another couple this past week...they know God and relate to Him in such a different manner than I do, the easiest thing would be to call them "out there" and just move on, but I'm going to stick this out...if I can't learn to really love these two who are IN the Body of Christ, how am I going to tolerate the world which is a TRUE mess? I'm going to make a decision here to not just love the loveable BUT to love the unlovable...and I'm going to do it FULLY...
Let me just say this too...I can't do this, it just is not in ME...BUT by understanding and tapping into God's grace I will find myself doing things I'm not capable of doing in the flesh...it is through Him only I walk this way...otherwise I know I'd walk away.....I'm excited to see what happens there....;)
Great Blog Michael, it really got me thinking and helped me to make what I think is a right decision...:) Thanks my friend, Lori
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| April 17, 2009 |
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Awesome testimony Lori! Michael and everyone: I'd just like to say that, that list of attributes is a "statement" not a "bill!" Those who have joined themselves to the Lord are one spirit with Him. Our part is merely to be the back cloth that allows the diamond of Christ's life to shine the brighter. We provide the weakness that his power is manifested through. We are the cup, He is the coffee. Those attributes are ours in Him, because that is just the way He is. Christ being our life is not just a secret decoder word for us expecting him to help us live by rules...e.g., for being a tutor that leads to rules. Those attributes are an announcement of the fruit the Spirit will produce through us...they are not a challenge to us in any other sense than their being a challenge for us to believe in the One who "is" them. "I am the way." Not I will show you the map (rules).
"I am the truth." Not I will give you knowledge independently of me (In him are hidden all the treasures).
"I am the life." Not I will give you life independently of me. "He who has the Son, has the life; He who does not have the Son, does not have the life." Blessings!
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| April 17, 2009 |
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| Great job description... I pray that when I get a new job that all these attributes exist from the coworkers....Working at Samaritans Purse was like going to church every day. Needless the other prior jobs did not....except for when I was employed at Billy Graham. If everyone conveyed these we would all love going to work..amen? |
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| April 18, 2009 |
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Why would you want that Lynne? Don't you want to get out of the salt shaker to where you'll be effective? :-) Who wants to go to a perfect Church and work at perfect job? There wouldn't be any need for a faith at all! :-0
Craig |
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| April 22, 2009 |
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| Michael, this is wonderful. Superb! |
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| May 17, 2009 |
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