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| (In Eldoret, Kenya) |
Pastors have their own problems. I know I do. I am so grateful for people in my church family who show me grace and love in spite of myself.
Some of my inner struggles have been healed. Gone! As regards those infirmities, I am free.
Some of my shortcomings have gotten better, but I'm not all the way there yet.
I am unaware, oblivious, to other, perhaps many, of my faults. God, in his mercy, has not shown them all to me at once, since I would fall apart and be undone.
Before I went to India I talked with a friend who had been there several times. I told him the name of the airline I would be taking on the flight from Mumbai to Hyderabad. He said, "They hold those planes together with baling wire."
What holds me together is the love, mercy, and grace of God. God loves me, his mercies are new every morning, and his grace is abundant and overflowing. I am God's child. God views me, not as a problem, but as a person made in his image.
View people as persons, not as problems.
Sympathize with, not criticize, their weaknesses.
Under-stand them. Stand below, not above, them.
Love them, show mercy to them, be gracious unto them.
Help them, as you have been helped.
Forgive them, as you have been forgiven.
Some of my inner struggles have been healed. Gone! As regards those infirmities, I am free.
Some of my shortcomings have gotten better, but I'm not all the way there yet.
I am unaware, oblivious, to other, perhaps many, of my faults. God, in his mercy, has not shown them all to me at once, since I would fall apart and be undone.
Before I went to India I talked with a friend who had been there several times. I told him the name of the airline I would be taking on the flight from Mumbai to Hyderabad. He said, "They hold those planes together with baling wire."
What holds me together is the love, mercy, and grace of God. God loves me, his mercies are new every morning, and his grace is abundant and overflowing. I am God's child. God views me, not as a problem, but as a person made in his image.
View people as persons, not as problems.
Sympathize with, not criticize, their weaknesses.
Under-stand them. Stand below, not above, them.
Love them, show mercy to them, be gracious unto them.
Help them, as you have been helped.
Forgive them, as you have been forgiven.
Set boundaries as needed.
See the "weight of glory" upon them.
See the "weight of glory" upon them.
