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We are brethren! We need to be concerned about one another

Explore the concept of "one another" in the Christian faith and how it calls believers to edify, submit, pray, teach, admonish, love, and bear with each other. Discover the importance of receiving, having peace with, being hospitable to, ministering to, and forgiving one another.

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We are brethren! We need to be concerned about one another

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  1. We are brethren!We need to be concerned about one another

  2. “One another” and the Christian • Edify • Submit • Wait for • Pray for • Teach & Admonish • Confess to • Have fellowship • Love • Be of the same mind • Consider • Greet • Be kind • Bear with • Bear burdens

  3. More “One Another”Passages

  4. Receive One Another • Romans 15:7 • Receive – to accept or welcome. Cf. Philemon 12, 17 • Context – Rom. 14:1-15:7, (Jews and Gentiles) accepting one another, even with differences (in matters of liberty) 14:1, 14:19, 15:1

  5. Receive One Another • Romans 15:7 • NOTE: Be careful not to abuse this text as permission for compromising the truth! • BUT, do we strive to make our brethren who are different welcome? • See also, Rom. 14:3, 15:7 – God has received them; As Christ also received us, to the glory of God – DID we deserve that?

  6. Have Peace With One Another • Mark 9:50 • Peace, the absence of strife • We need peace in our lives – in our nation and the world, inner peace, peace with God • Our text – peace with each other (as brethren)

  7. Have Peace With One Another • Mark 9:50 • Peace, the absence of strife • Context (9:33-50) Jesus is addressing how we are to serve and our influence on others! • Strive to promote peace (be pleasant, like salt) • Cf. Colossians 4:6, Romans 14:19 • Self-control – Ephesians 4:6, James 5:19-20

  8. Be Hospitable to One Another • 1 Peter 4:9 • Hospitality, φιλόξενος, (philoxenos) “love of strangers” (Vine’s) • It is extending kindness to another, “giving or affording a generous welcome” • We must be hospitable – Romans 12:13, Hebrews 13:2. (1 Tim. 3:2 – elders.)

  9. Be Hospitable to One Another • 1 Peter 4:9 • With pure motives - • “Without grumbling” • Joyfully, cf. Luke 14:12-14 • Even to strangers – can be opportunity to let your light shine • Be ready, both physically and spiritually! Cf. 1 Timothy 6:18

  10. Minister to One Another • 1 Peter 4:10 • Verb form (διακονέω, diakoneō) of same Greek word as “deacons” - • One who serves, gives attention to the needs of another • Galatians 5:13 • “As good stewards” • 1 Peter 4:11, Hebrews 6:10 • We are the family of God!

  11. Forgiving One Another • Ephesians 4:32, Colossians 3:13 • A word meaning to generously forgive. A form of the word for “grace”. • Colossians 2:13, Christ forgave us! • Matthew 6:12-15, 18:21 (22-35) – how we forgive, is how we will be forgiven!

  12. Let us NEVER take one another for granted!

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