Aiming to Be a Blessing
Our love for God’s people ought to drive us to a purely-motivated loving service and care that goes even beyond what we think is possible.
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Managing Misunderstandings
When there are misunderstandings, hurt, and conflict we must seek to repair the problems without ever compromising our integrity before God.
Assessing Motives
Unfortunately Christians these days routinely and confidently assert their supposed insight into the thoughts and motives of those with whom they disagree. God’s people are regrettably mirroring the practice of the world by all too often claiming to know what others are thinking. While it is common to routinely impugn motives
Handling God’s Word
As Christians we often feel wise and secure because we are familiar with God’s word. We acquire a sense of empowerment and feel justified in our actions because we have confidently applied this verse or that to the decisions we have made. However, God warns us…
Motives
What an amazing experience to have been a follower of Christ during his earthly ministry. Imagine sitting in the crowd listening to him teach, counsel and correct the world in which you lived. Consider the enormous privilege of being able to ask your specific questions and having God’s perfect wisdom delivered to you by the mouth of Christ himself. But even with all of that, Judas proved to be a traitor
The Fear of Having Nothing
We must spend no time or energy worrying about what we need, instead we should work diligently to advance his cause in this world trusting that he will adequately provide all that we might need.
Affectation
We must be careful not to win people over to some sort of cultural Christianity that gives an impression of conversion, when in fact, they have not been regenerated from the inside out.
Exceptional Love with Exceptional Motives
Jesus calls us to decide to sacrificially love others (as God himself does) without thought of what we might get or not get in return.
In Search of a Divine Motive
We must resolve to rely on God to replicate God’s merciful and gracious love toward imperfect people.
Weeding Out the Bad Stuff
To be motivated by God’s love will require a serious resolve to fight our natural tendencies to put ourselves first and be intolerant of others.
Don’t Have Breakfast Without It
God wants his kids to be motivated by his kind of committed and selfless love as we go about serving one another in the body of Christ.
How to Be Godly
If we are to add more godliness to our life then we must direct more of our life toward God.