Hi pastor John,
I love today’s reading in 1Timothy. Every time you talk about slander, it gets clearer in my spirit how it works, and how bad it is, and how much it hurts the people involved. I loved the answer for it: sincerity and the love of God. If we are like that, sincere and love the truth we will overcome it all, and not get involved in slander. It will go some where else, like you said.
It sounds so complicated because it has so many fingers like spaghetti, but like you said, if we can discern the body and take it where we need to take it, slander will have to go somewhere else. But it will work where God’s people need to know who is approved of by God in the body and who is who in the body. I thank God that we have such a wonderful place to learn about him, where his anointing is at work.
Thanks
Stuart
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This weekend was great. I feel like it was a real education for me. I had many many wrong thoughts about what slander is and how slander works, so to hear someone really dive in and correct those wrong thoughts was really good to me. Something I have always heard dad say that I was reminded of this weekend is:
“If you have a complaint or a problem always complain up.”
That is going to the right place with your thoughts, right or wrong. If your thoughts are right, you will be encouraged. If they are wrong, you will be corrected.
I feel safety in that.
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