Pastor Josh teaches us from Romans 15 this morning:
“All of this takes place in the church, among genuine believers who have serious disagreements and cause harm to one another, willfully or unintentionally. Each is in a process of maturing and sanctification. Rather than to despise each other’s weakness, rather than to judge and slander one another, we must bless. Rather than to repay evil in vengeance, we should love those who have been our enemies. Christ did not please himself. He bore reproach when he had the power not to have been reproached. He suffered when he had the power not to have suffered what he suffered, had he been minded to look to his own pleasure. He suffered for the sake of those who caused his suffering. This is the love genuine…”