John Piper focused on "Six Biblical Guidelines for Loving Each Other Amid Differences" listed below with the Bethlehem Baptist Church's pastoral staff at BBC's annual pastors and wives two-and-a-half day retreat the week after Easter 2009. It's wise counsel for us all.
1. Let’s avoid gossiping.
2. Let’s identify evidences of grace in each other and speak them to each other and about each other.
3. Let’s speak criticism directly to each other if we feel the need to speak to others about it.
4. Let’s look for, and assume, the best motive in the other’s viewpoint, especially when we disagree.
5. Think often of the magnificent things we hold in common.
6. Let’s be more amazed that we are forgiven than that we are right. And in that way, let’s shape our relationships by the gospel.
Read Piper's entire post here.
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