Helping others

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The Apostle Paul reminds us in Romans that all people fall short of God's glorious standard. Women and men live in often broken domestic arrangements, priests and lawyers fail to comprehend the letter of the law which Jesus Christ fulfills, and there is enmity between Gentiles and Jews over ritual sacrifice and the covenant of circumcision. How gracious, how righteous the Lord is though in the face of our iniquity.

Romans 15:2 tells us, "We should help others do what is right and build them up in the Lord." (NLT, Tyndale House)

We as Christians are often told to hate sin and to love the sinner, according to some ideas, but Paul frames this argument differently. We are given patience and endurance, not for self-satisfaction but in order to live in harmony with others. It is not good to call a person sinful for being far from the Lord. These claims fall down upon ourselves. Rather, we must help each other live rightly, so that God might grant us joy and confident hope. Doing this is pleasing to God.
 
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It is not good to call a person sinful for being far from the Lord. These claims fall down upon ourselves. Rather, we must help each other live rightly, so that God might grant us joy and confident hope. Doing this is pleasing to God.
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Welcome to CC, Tex.

While it may be “nice” to avoid calling out the sin of others, it isn’t genuine kindness. We are called to tell people the truth about their sin and its consequences along with the redemption available in Jesus Christ. Having received such a great salvation, how can we not share it with others?
 
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Hello Tex, a person I consider to have some good insights once observed that we are all sinners and sometimes it is better to be so conscious of one's own sin that there is little spare time to worry about what someone else is doing unless it is truly harmful as opposed to merely distasteful in one's own eyes. But also, helping someone else walk closer to God just might bring yourself closer.
 
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The Apostle Paul reminds us in Romans that all people fall short of God's glorious standard. Women and men live in often broken domestic arrangements, priests and lawyers fail to comprehend the letter of the law which Jesus Christ fulfills, and there is enmity between Gentiles and Jews over ritual sacrifice and the covenant of circumcision. How gracious, how righteous the Lord is though in the face of our iniquity.

Romans 15:2 tells us, "We should help others do what is right and build them up in the Lord." (NLT, Tyndale House)

We as Christians are often told to hate sin and to love the sinner, according to some ideas, but Paul frames this argument differently. We are given patience and endurance, not for self-satisfaction but in order to live in harmony with others. It is not good to call a person sinful for being far from the Lord. These claims fall down upon ourselves. Rather, we must help each other live rightly, so that God might grant us joy and confident hope. Doing this is pleasing to God.
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well from Paul's wording I think it's for like him more meaning not to draw attention to the individual in some spectacle, where as pointing out someone their sin can be good so as for them to reflect, just as Jonah a prophet of God though he didn't like it went to his enemies in Nineveh to tell them their sins and that they needed to repent, it helped them to feel convicted and change for the better, true how we go about it is important but, when it's truthful and we seek to help then it won't hurt the individual in the end
 
Tex_MidwesternerNW said:
The Apostle Paul reminds us in Romans that all people fall short of God's glorious standard. Women and men live in often broken domestic arrangements, priests and lawyers fail to comprehend the letter of the law which Jesus Christ fulfills, and there is enmity between Gentiles and Jews over ritual sacrifice and the covenant of circumcision. How gracious, how righteous the Lord is though in the face of our iniquity.

Romans 15:2 tells us, "We should help others do what is right and build them up in the Lord." (NLT, Tyndale House)

We as Christians are often told to hate sin and to love the sinner, according to some ideas, but Paul frames this argument differently. We are given patience and endurance, not for self-satisfaction but in order to live in harmony with others. It is not good to call a person sinful for being far from the Lord. These claims fall down upon ourselves. Rather, we must help each other live rightly, so that God might grant us joy and confident hope. Doing this is pleasing to God.
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Be careful to hear truth from God working it all out through you. We can go and try to help a big yes. (Galatians 6)
Yet not if God calls you and you agree with God. Remembering there is a time for everything
Ecclesiastes, anything Done without God's lead through the person doing it, it is futile
 
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