Good morning,

Galatians 6:2-3: Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. For if anyone thinks he is something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

It may be unconventional, but some of the most refreshing fellowships I’ve had with people is when they confess to me a sin or weakness, and I empathize from my experiences or simply am struggling at that very moment in my own life, and I confess to them. The beauty of the fellowship is that we end up exalting in the patience and love of our Lord to be mercifully accepting with us as we look to Him for forgiveness. At that moment, even though it may be only two of us in His midst, we are having genuine worship and community all under the accepting grace of Jesus.

As long as we "act" as if we are foreign to temptation and neglect what we have in common, the Lord’s mercy, we have deceived ourselves into thinking that it is us, and not Jesus upholding us every second. So anyone boasting against someone else’s sin and compares themselves as better is not operating in grace, nor does it create any kind of "community" where people want to be apart of. Church will simply become a place we go for individual satisfaction, somehow believing we don’t relate to everyone. Forgetting that all of us are in desperate need for forgiveness and mercy.

In His Love, Ld

On Jul 2, 2012 3:04 PM, "Soong-Yol Hong" <soongyol> wrote: