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To: Salvation

Yes that is what I want to say.

People exercising real spiritual leadership lead by example, they don’t go around wagging fingers at other people.

The very fact of being more concerned with another’s sins than one’s own changes the conversation from a spiritual/philosophical one (self improvement and personal development) to a political one (control over the actions of others).

Bottom line: If you learn to control yourself, you will see no need whatsoever to control anyone else.


11 posted on 06/26/2017 11:00:01 AM PDT by thoughtomator
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To: thoughtomator

If you are correcting someone because of control issues, then yes, that is wrong.

If you are correcting someone because they are in a situation that involves sin and maybe they don’t see it and need someone to point it out, out of concern, that’s a different matter.


15 posted on 06/26/2017 11:25:40 AM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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To: thoughtomator
People exercising real spiritual leadership lead by example, they don’t go around wagging fingers at other people.


2 Samuel 12  New International Version (NIV)

 

The Lord sent Nathan to David. When he came to him, he said, “There were two men in a certain town, one rich and the other poor. The rich man had a very large number of sheep and cattle, but the poor man had nothing except one little ewe lamb he had bought. He raised it, and it grew up with him and his children. It shared his food, drank from his cup and even slept in his arms. It was like a daughter to him.

“Now a traveler came to the rich man, but the rich man refrained from taking one of his own sheep or cattle to prepare a meal for the traveler who had come to him. Instead, he took the ewe lamb that belonged to the poor man and prepared it for the one who had come to him.”

David burned with anger against the man and said to Nathan, “As surely as the Lord lives, the man who did this must die! He must pay for that lamb four times over, because he did such a thing and had no pity.”


22 posted on 06/26/2017 2:00:57 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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