When people fail

[Guap]

What do you think? How should we treat others who fail?

Why did God treat Abraham the way that he did? What does that say about how we should treat others who fail?

http://ontoxenos.wordpress.com/2014/05/05/abraham-and-habitual-sin/

 

[Gary]

What do you think? How should we treat others who fail?

Why did God treat Abraham the way that he did? What does that say about how we should treat others who fail?

Mark 12
31 And the second, like it, is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”

Matthew 7
12 Therefore, whatever you want men to do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.
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[WIP]

Also consider how Jesus treated those that have failed, ergo, sinners.

I think John 8:1-11 is a great example.

 

[Michael74]

"...you must not associate with anyone who claims to be a brother or sister but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or slanderer, a drunkard or swindler. Do not even eat with such people." 1 Corinthians 5:11b NIV

 

[for_his_glory]

Let's look at some that failed God at times, but yet God loved them and used them for the purpose of His ministry.

Noah was a drunk

Isaac was a daydreamer

Jacob was a liar

Moses had a stuttering problem and refused to speak to others what God told him to speak

Gideon was afraid

Samson had long hair and was a womanizer

Rahab was a prostitute

David had an affair and was a murderer

Elijah was suicidal

Isaiah preached naked

Jonah ran from God

Peter denied Christ three times

The Disciples fell asleep while praying

Martha worried about everything

Mary Magdalene was a Prostitute

The Samaritan woman was divorced, more than once

Paul was too religious (and as Saul was a murderer?)

God can use you to your full potential.

Besides you aren't the message you are the messenger. God wants your availability, not your ability.

 

[Michael74]

"When people sin, you should forgive and comfort them, so they won’t give up in despair. You should make them sure of your love for them." 2 Corinthians 2:7-8 CEV

 

[Michael74]

"...Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more." John 8:11b KJV

The key phrase seems to be go and sin no more. Paul told the Corinthians to shun hypocrites who claimed to be believers, but engaged in un-repented serious willful sin. Paul then seems to be telling the Corinthians to forgive, love, and accept those who repent. The goal seems to be to rehabilitate sinners, and turn them into holy Christians. As Lord Jesus said: "go, and sin no more".