posted Sep 25, 2017, 1:13 PM by Grant Garber
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- The Christian walk is a shared journey. We don’t walk alone; others walk with us.
- In our shared life….
- We “carry each other’s burdens”.
- We learn to listen to each other.
- We are available to each other in love.
- Self-understanding, self-appreciation and self-affirmation are marks of authentic Christian faith.
- The truly humble know who they are; they know their strengths as well as their weaknesses.
- There are some duties and tasks which we alone can perform, for which we alone must accept responsibility.
- In this context the “load” we must bear on our own is the job of self-examination and self-correction.
- We must never measure ourselves against other Christians.
- At the heart of our shared life is the ministry of spiritual support, guidance and restoration.
- We are all vulnerable. Any of us may slip.
- Within our shared life we make judgments of each other, but this judgment is an assessment made in love, not condemnation.
- The mutual support and correcting we provide for each other is done in the Spirit of Christ who is gentle and calls us to gentleness.
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