Treating Our Fellow Christians Right, Part 1 (TMF:2163)

Wednesday, August 23, 2023
Peace to Live By: Treating Our Fellow Christians Right, Part 1 (TMF:2163) - Daniel Litton
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       Our interactions with each other, are supposed to stand out so that those who don’t know God see that we really treat each other well. Of course, we certainly don’t always live up to this, unfortunately, but can rather, on the other hand, be even more divisive than many of those living without God. What does it mean to grumble? We should probably define that so that we don’t find ourselves doing it. The idea behind grumble here in James, when comparing this verse here in the ESV with other Bible translations, seems to be the idea of complaining. So, we could say we are not to complain, find fault, fight, argue, scold, or reprimand another. That’s the idea here. The point is that we, as Christians, as believers in Jesus, are to be treating our fellow brothers and sisters with kindness and praise. Even when we disagree, and those times are certainly going to happen every now and then, a lot of times we are just going to have to look the other way. We are going to have to bite our tongue and move on, letting that difference of opinion go.