How are we to treat other people? There is a principle in this chapter that runs through every paragraph. God cares about people.
Go to your brother. Pray for your brother. Forgive your brother. These are the directives of this chapter. The underlying principle is that God cares about people. As Americans, I can't speak for other cultures, we tend to care more about our rights, our freedoms, and our comfort than about other people. This chapter calls us to the radical lifestyle of going out of our way to care about people.
Father, I have to confess that I have too often cared more about my own comfort. May I be willing to be part of the search party rather than staying home to guard the flock.
Matthew 18:7 NIV
Woe to the world because of the things that cause people to stumble! Such things must come, but woe to the person through whom they come!
Matthew 18:12 NIV
"What do you think? If a man owns a hundred sheep, and one of them wanders away, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go to look for the one that wandered off?"
Go to your brother. Pray for your brother. Forgive your brother. These are the directives of this chapter. The underlying principle is that God cares about people. As Americans, I can't speak for other cultures, we tend to care more about our rights, our freedoms, and our comfort than about other people. This chapter calls us to the radical lifestyle of going out of our way to care about people.
Father, I have to confess that I have too often cared more about my own comfort. May I be willing to be part of the search party rather than staying home to guard the flock.
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