October 2, 2005

• 1 Timothy 5: 1-2

  Do not rebuke an older man harshly, but exhort him as if he were your father. Treat younger men as brothers, older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters, with absolute purity.

  I feel like I need to edit what I said in the last post. It is not my duty to tell people every little thing they do wrong, because I do countless things wrong, but if ever the Spirit leads me to speak to a brother or sister in Christ, I should talk to them in the way that the preceeding verse says. I am not to be a dictator of legalism, but an encourager and one who speaks love into the lives of other people. I am a part of the body of Christ. I am not God. To say that I have some sort of general authority over others is proposterous. I have been given avenues of leadership not in every area, but those specific ones which Christ has called me to. At the same time, I should speak the truth into other people's lives, but not forget humilty and my place before Christ. I am to treat my father as my father, my mother as my mother, and my sisters as my sisters. I have not been given the same role in each of their lives.

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