Grilling Brothers and Sisters...

The sermon this last Sunday was interesting. Pastor talked on Titus 2:1-11 and although I won't be writing about the sermon itself, there was something that was said that I thought to be very ,very relevant.

The lesson I learnt this week from that sermon was that we have to be looking up to other Christians to learn from them.

He said that once in a while we should get one Christian
(older in the faith, or more mature) and ask questions, or to be more accurate: "to grill them".

"How they went through things that we are going through, how has the Lord showed them which way to go, or even how to make certain decisions. Those questions should reflect our constant practice : to "interrogate" them and be constantly learning from them.

It would certainly save us a lot of pain in certain wrong and immature decisions that we make, it should always add a relevant perspective that we haven't come across yet. Above all it surely will help us to exercise and learn humility, as we learn from our brothers and sisters that our thinking is not always as heavenward as we would wish.

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When you think about that, you start to understand why God has placed us in the Church and how much we can profit from it...Ephesians 4:13 doesn't talk about how we ourselves grow alone in Christ, but how the Lord has placed us in the church where we serve others and are blessed by the them.
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 He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.

In Christ

J. Roque