I have been thinking and praying about this post for many days. I think that there is much we can learn from this brothers and sisters. Or at least I have learn lots. Thanks to the grace of God. I would like to share with you all the things God has showed in these last few days. This isn't pointed at anyone, a just a lesson to take to heart.A Message that Tim Referred to by Ken Sande on Church Discipline:
I have also attached a brochure that summarizes the main principles from the "Peacemaker" book by Ken Sande to help in dealing with Conflict Resolution in a Biblical way.I write not to come against a brother, but to share my story of Gods faithful love. I come to tell of God has favor on those who obey. Brother and Sister I know you love me and stood, where I was called to bow down and say nothing. If I had I would given into the flesh and my mission would have been hindered. I step back to pray. There is much unspoken, and many things have happened. I have wept. But I have forgiven him, and I ask you will to. And I ask that we will pray for our brother, as I will.Now my beloved this what I have learn may it bless you as it has me.But I must beg all, whenever we are angry with another brother and sister lets be biblical. "If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother. But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every charge may be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses. If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector." -Matthew 18:15-17"When I first entered upon the work of the ministry among you, I was exceedingly ignorant of the vast importance of church discipline. I thought that my great and almost only work was to pray and preach. I saw your souls to be so precious, and the time so short, that I devoted all my time, and care, andstrength, to labor in word and doctrine. When cases of discipline were brought before me and the elders, I regarded them with something like abhorrence. It was a duty I shrank from; and I may truly say it nearly drove me from the work of the ministry among you altogether. But it pleased God, who teaches His servants in another way than man teaches, to bless some of the cases of discipline to the manifest and undeniable conversion of the souls of those under our care; and from that hour a new light broke in upon my mind, and I saw that if preaching be an ordinance of Christ, so is church discipline. I now feel very deeply persuaded that both are of God – that two keys are committed to us by Christ: the one the key of doctrine, by means of which we unlock the treasures of the Bible; the other the key of discipline, by which we open or shut the way to the sealing ordinances of the faith. Both are Christ’s gift, and neither is to be resigned without sin."- Robert Murray M’Cheyne What is Biblical Correction in the Body of Christ?There has been many times over and over we come to this. People say anything against us, or we say towards someone else the wrong way. We go behind there back, or email or prayer against them in from t of others. I am guilty as I am sure many us are. Looking at Matthew 18..these are just the notes I took from this sermon http://www.tucsonsovgrace.org/pages/index.php?pID=574I am seeing that When we go a brother or sister with correction it is a gift if done in a right way, when done wrong it is a sin, and bring pain and hurt to the body. - When a brother sins against us, we are to go the them alone..Please lets do it the bible ways. This seems to the most saddest thing when do not obey the bibles ways. So lets encourage each others, to go first to the person. Lets stand up against this brothers and sister. If a person come at us saying something about someone lets be quick to point them to go to that person and speak with them. Don't LISTEN!! Tell them to go to that person and if the person don’t listen then they may come back. Let help the body by not LISTINGare we not Guilty? Of going behind others back and speaking about them? Don't we know how hurtful this is to the body? Don't we know this not love at all? loving the body my beloved when we going behind others to tear them down is not love. I have done this am I guilty? May God help me to speak with pure lips at all times. So this dear sister came by tonight to say she was sorry she heard a person belittle me telling to careful, saying I was off. Now this sister has something towards, me. She went behind my back to tell others, yet never told me. When we do this beloved we only bring greater broken to the body of Christ. Awake Beloved this is wrong, and it must hurtful to many. God say go to them alone. We are called to love one another, but how can we love when we are tearing each other down? We most not let sin destroy us. Let go to each other. When we fail to go we come to all kind of false ideas of that person. I ask the question how many times have we thought someone meant this or that, and when you get all the fact you are WRONG. I know I have been many times. Lets be wise and ans ask lots of questions first. Misunderstanding do come, that is why we are to go to them first and alone.. Lets be wise and truly love one another. When speak against another behind there back, it is not love. When a person see another in sin the most loving thing we can do is to go to them, with a loving and gentle spirit to show them hey you are off. It is Gods way of using the body to kill a sin that could grow bigger. So when we don’t go we fail to express our love for them. - But we must go with first looking at self, log in own eye. and with a humble spirit. We need to go with a humble spirit and we need have a humble spirit when another comes at us. are we willing to expect the corrections?- We need Gods grace to be humble. - We need a right picture of Sin. Sin is evil wicked the thing that brought Christ to the Cross. Sin is no small thing. Sin is huge. Sin is what brake fellowship, when we are unwilling to obey and turn from sin. When you want to be right. We are blind to our blindness we need each other to show us, where we are getting off. - What lies do we believe that we are unwilling to go and tell another their sin? - its unkind- God will change them- Its risky- I am I willing to take the chance of losing a friend, to more loving and show them where they are off. Think on this, Jesus Christ came to the world to point out Sin. James 1:9when bring a brother back from sinning cover many sins...- it is seen as compassionate and kind to go and bring correction to a brother. But why alone? How often do we follow this?Do we go to the person first?I need to repent of not going to them first. Or not going to a brother who is in Sin. It say in Gal 6.. if brother in sin, he who is spiritual , to correct with gentle spirit?-Gods order is we go first to our brother alone..If we don’t repent, or listen then we go to get others. It seen has a case Prov 9:8porv 29:5Rebuke better hidden lovePeace makers- say that they see as someone is in great need and are going to save them. They take the risk. Our love is not deep if we are not willing to go and bring correction when a brother has sinned towards you, or you see on the path of sin. You are no help to them, if they blind are about to walk in the water and you say nothing. We are blind. We need each to point out our sins. If they don’t listen to others, then to the Church.If they don’t repent then we see as unbelievers,
I have also attached a brochure that summarizes the main principles from the "Peacemaker" book by Ken Sande to help in dealing with Conflict Resolution in a Biblical way.I write not to come against a brother, but to share my story of Gods faithful love. I come to tell of God has favor on those who obey. Brother and Sister I know you love me and stood, where I was called to bow down and say nothing. If I had I would given into the flesh and my mission would have been hindered. I step back to pray. There is much unspoken, and many things have happened. I have wept. But I have forgiven him, and I ask you will to. And I ask that we will pray for our brother, as I will.Now my beloved this what I have learn may it bless you as it has me.But I must beg all, whenever we are angry with another brother and sister lets be biblical. "If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother. But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every charge may be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses. If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector." -Matthew 18:15-17"When I first entered upon the work of the ministry among you, I was exceedingly ignorant of the vast importance of church discipline. I thought that my great and almost only work was to pray and preach. I saw your souls to be so precious, and the time so short, that I devoted all my time, and care, andstrength, to labor in word and doctrine. When cases of discipline were brought before me and the elders, I regarded them with something like abhorrence. It was a duty I shrank from; and I may truly say it nearly drove me from the work of the ministry among you altogether. But it pleased God, who teaches His servants in another way than man teaches, to bless some of the cases of discipline to the manifest and undeniable conversion of the souls of those under our care; and from that hour a new light broke in upon my mind, and I saw that if preaching be an ordinance of Christ, so is church discipline. I now feel very deeply persuaded that both are of God – that two keys are committed to us by Christ: the one the key of doctrine, by means of which we unlock the treasures of the Bible; the other the key of discipline, by which we open or shut the way to the sealing ordinances of the faith. Both are Christ’s gift, and neither is to be resigned without sin."- Robert Murray M’Cheyne What is Biblical Correction in the Body of Christ?There has been many times over and over we come to this. People say anything against us, or we say towards someone else the wrong way. We go behind there back, or email or prayer against them in from t of others. I am guilty as I am sure many us are. Looking at Matthew 18..these are just the notes I took from this sermon http://www.tucsonsovgrace.org/pages/index.php?pID=574I am seeing that When we go a brother or sister with correction it is a gift if done in a right way, when done wrong it is a sin, and bring pain and hurt to the body. - When a brother sins against us, we are to go the them alone..Please lets do it the bible ways. This seems to the most saddest thing when do not obey the bibles ways. So lets encourage each others, to go first to the person. Lets stand up against this brothers and sister. If a person come at us saying something about someone lets be quick to point them to go to that person and speak with them. Don't LISTEN!! Tell them to go to that person and if the person don’t listen then they may come back. Let help the body by not LISTINGare we not Guilty? Of going behind others back and speaking about them? Don't we know how hurtful this is to the body? Don't we know this not love at all? loving the body my beloved when we going behind others to tear them down is not love. I have done this am I guilty? May God help me to speak with pure lips at all times. So this dear sister came by tonight to say she was sorry she heard a person belittle me telling to careful, saying I was off. Now this sister has something towards, me. She went behind my back to tell others, yet never told me. When we do this beloved we only bring greater broken to the body of Christ. Awake Beloved this is wrong, and it must hurtful to many. God say go to them alone. We are called to love one another, but how can we love when we are tearing each other down? We most not let sin destroy us. Let go to each other. When we fail to go we come to all kind of false ideas of that person. I ask the question how many times have we thought someone meant this or that, and when you get all the fact you are WRONG. I know I have been many times. Lets be wise and ans ask lots of questions first. Misunderstanding do come, that is why we are to go to them first and alone.. Lets be wise and truly love one another. When speak against another behind there back, it is not love. When a person see another in sin the most loving thing we can do is to go to them, with a loving and gentle spirit to show them hey you are off. It is Gods way of using the body to kill a sin that could grow bigger. So when we don’t go we fail to express our love for them. - But we must go with first looking at self, log in own eye. and with a humble spirit. We need to go with a humble spirit and we need have a humble spirit when another comes at us. are we willing to expect the corrections?- We need Gods grace to be humble. - We need a right picture of Sin. Sin is evil wicked the thing that brought Christ to the Cross. Sin is no small thing. Sin is huge. Sin is what brake fellowship, when we are unwilling to obey and turn from sin. When you want to be right. We are blind to our blindness we need each other to show us, where we are getting off. - What lies do we believe that we are unwilling to go and tell another their sin? - its unkind- God will change them- Its risky- I am I willing to take the chance of losing a friend, to more loving and show them where they are off. Think on this, Jesus Christ came to the world to point out Sin. James 1:9when bring a brother back from sinning cover many sins...- it is seen as compassionate and kind to go and bring correction to a brother. But why alone? How often do we follow this?Do we go to the person first?I need to repent of not going to them first. Or not going to a brother who is in Sin. It say in Gal 6.. if brother in sin, he who is spiritual , to correct with gentle spirit?-Gods order is we go first to our brother alone..If we don’t repent, or listen then we go to get others. It seen has a case Prov 9:8porv 29:5Rebuke better hidden lovePeace makers- say that they see as someone is in great need and are going to save them. They take the risk. Our love is not deep if we are not willing to go and bring correction when a brother has sinned towards you, or you see on the path of sin. You are no help to them, if they blind are about to walk in the water and you say nothing. We are blind. We need each to point out our sins. If they don’t listen to others, then to the Church.If they don’t repent then we see as unbelievers,
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