Drawing Lines: Where Do Yours Begin?

Originally Posted by cneasttx

My line is drawn when anyone is disrespectful about, or gossips about preachers and/or pastors. If they have a problem they don't have to tell anyone or everyone about it. Tell it to God, I don't wanna know. Some want to tell everyone and their dog about this or that preacher and how wrong they are. Pray about it, don't be spreading the spirit of gossip. It just makes me angry.

Wow. We Pastors LOVE people like you!

[Sister Alvear]

I have the same problem it gets to me when pastors talk about other pastors...

[Joelel]

Originally Posted by simplyme

Could this be? Once having cast out ones OWN 'mote', one can then do that to another bro? What IF that one doesn't wanna let it go?
Can we bop em up side the head and yank it out for their own good?


Not meaning to ever make fun of GOD's WORD, but seriously I never looked at it this way.
I can't see how anyone can be "perfect" enough to demand someone else change
or else!

It means if you get the mote (sin) out of your life you will be able to see how to get sin out of your brothers life.Sin blinds people to where they can't see how to do God's work.

2 Peter 1:[5] And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
[6] And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;
[7] And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
[8] For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
[9] But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.
[10] Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:

1John.2
[11] But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.