Intimacy Without Timidity
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The document emphasizes the importance of love and accountability within the Christian community, referencing biblical passages that illustrate the concept that God is love and that perfect love casts out fear. It discusses the need for boldness in addressing hypocrisy, as exemplified in Paul confronting Peter, and highlights the role of accountability in restoring individuals who stray from righteousness. Overall, it stresses that a loving and open environment fosters spiritual growth and effective church relationships.
Intimacy Without Timidity
- 1. Intimacy Without Timidity2 Timothy 1:3-7
- 2. Openness Without Fear1 John 4:7-8, 16-18, 21 7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. 8 The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love. 16 We have come to know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. 17 By this, love is perfected with us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment; because as He is, so also are we in this world. 18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears is not perfected in love. 21 And this commandment we have from Him, that the one who loves God should love his brother also.
- 3. Openness Without Fear1 John 4:7-8, 16-21God is Love!Those who abide in God abide in Love, and visa versa.Love means not having to worry about punishment.At the hands of GodAt the hands of others
- 4. Boldness in AccountabilityLoving enough to say the very best.Paul Confronts Peter’s Hypocrisy (Galatians 2:11-14)11But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned. 12 For prior to the coming of certain men from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles; but when they came, he began to withdraw and hold himself aloof, fearing the party of the circumcision. 13 The rest of the Jews joined him in hypocrisy, with the result that even Barnabas was carried away by their hypocrisy. 14 But when I saw that they were not straightforward about the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in the presence of all, “If you, being a Jew, live like the Gentiles and not like the Jews, how is it that you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?
- 5. Boldness in AccountabilityLoving enough to say the very best.Paul Confronts Peter’s Hypocrisy (Galatians 2:11-14)Accountability Saves Sinners (James 5:20)20let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.
- 6. Boldness in AccountabilityLoving enough to say the very best.Paul Confronts Peter’s Hypocrisy (Galatians 2:11-14)Accountability Saves Sinners (James 5:20)Attitude is Everything (Galatians 6:1) 1Brethren, even if anyone is caught in any trespass, you who are spiritual, restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; each one looking to yourself, so that you too will not be tempted.
- 7. (a) Because I know that you love me, (b) I’m giving you permission to help me live a God-pleasing Christian life.Leave out (a) or (b) and you have an impersonal & ineffective church!