Promoting Peace to Those Around Us (TMF:1863)

Wednesday, June 01, 2022
Peace to Live By: Promoting Peace to Those Around Us (TMF:1863) - Daniel Litton
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       Anyone can have the attitude that they don’t want to be told what they are to do. When we abide by that attitude, we find that we are acting selfishly, that we really only care about what we desire. But, in keeping people in mind, whoever we are, that displays righteousness before God, that makes them feel good and not feel pressured. This promotes peace among ourselves and whoever we are around. It is peace for us because we know we’ve done right, and it’s peace for others because we aren’t pressuring them. And it’s joy for us as we are trusting in God; we are forgoing our own personal freedom for the moment. This truth applies to us as individuals relating to other individuals, but it also applies to how one church relates to another church. Bodies of believers can get trapped into a mental framework of which they think only the way they do things are right, and if you don't do things the way they do them, you are in the wrong. It becomes tunnel vision. One church isn’t to judge another church because they approve or disapprove of something that is in a gray area.