One Another Series - Week 7
How NOT to Treat Others
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Group Discussion
- What are some examples of selfish ambition or vain conceit that you’ve seen damage a relationship in a church or family setting?
- How can you shift your mindset from judging someone’s actions to praying for them and seeking to understand their heart?
- As a group read the following verses and share amongst yourselves what they warn us of. Which of these do you find hardest to avoid: lying, slander, grumbling, gossip? Why?
Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices.
James 4:11
Brothers and sisters, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against a brother or sistera] or judges them speaks against the law and judges it. When you judge the law, you are not keeping it, but sitting in judgment on it.
James 5:9
Don’t grumble against one another, brothers and sisters, or you will be judged. The Judge is standing at the door!
Galatians 5:15
If you bite and devour each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other.
KEY VERSES:
Philippians 2:3–4
Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.
James 3:16
For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice.
Romans 14:5,6
One person considers one day more sacred than another; another considers every day alike. Each of them should be fully convinced in their own mind. Whoever regards one day as special does so to the Lord. Whoever eats meat does so to the Lord, for they give thanks to God; and whoever abstains does so to the Lord and gives thanks to God.
Romans 14:10-12
You, then, why do you judge your brother or sister? Or why do you treat them with contempt? For we will all stand before God’s judgment seat. It is written: “‘As surely as I live,’ says the Lord, ‘every knee will bow before me; every tongue will acknowledge God.’” So then, each of us will give an account of ourselves to God.
Galatians 5:26
Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other.
Philippians 2:3
Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves
CLOSING PRAYER
Lord, thank you for the clarity of Your Word and for showing us how to live in community. Please forgive us for the times we have argued, judged, slandered, or envied one another. Help us to put on humility and to value others above ourselves. May we be a people who build up, rather than tear down, so that the world may see Your love through us. Amen.
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