BEARING AND IMPERFECT

COMMUNITY
 UNMASKING : CARING AND SHARING:
strip away all masks breakdown our barriers
- discover that we ² desire to reach out
are children of God

Reveal our weaknesses,

limitations, fears, self-
centeredness,
frustrations, jealousies
 Why does this have to happen to me?


   IMPERFECT

 People are IMPERFECT

People MAKE UP COMMUNITY

There will never be a PERFECT COMMUNITY

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ë he is swollen with pride and knows nothing. He has an
unhealthy desire to argue and quarrel
(1 Timothy 6:4)

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ëhere there is jealousy and selfishness, there is also
disorder and every kind of evil
(James 3:16)

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ë why do you pass judgment on you brother? All of us
will stand before God to be judged by Him So then let us
all stop judging one another.
(Romans 14:10,13)

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ëGet rid of all bitterness, passion, anger. No more
shouting of insults, no more hateful feelings of any sort.

(Ephesians 4:31)
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ëBut if you act like wild animals, hurting and harming each
other, then watch out, for you will completely destroy one
another
(Galatians 5:15)

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ëDo everything without complaining or arguing

(Philippians 2:14)

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ëGet rid of all bitterness, passion, anger. No more
shouting of insults, no more hateful feelings of any sort.

(Ephesians 4:31)

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ëNo more lying, then! Everyone must tell the truth to his
fellow believers because we are all members together in
the body of Christ
(Ephesians 4:25)
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ëBe careful, however, not to let you freedom of action
make those who are weak in faith fall into sin And in this
way you are sinning against your Christian brothers and
wounding their weak conscience

(1 Corinthians 8:9,12)

ë instead you should decide never to do anything that

would make your brother stumble or fall into sin.

(Romans 14:13)

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ëDo not payback evil with evil or cursing with cursing;
instead, pay back with a blessing because a blessing is
what God promised to give you when He called you.

(1 Peter 3:9)
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ëEach of us should think of his neighbor and help

them to become better Christians

(Romans 15:2)

ëAlways consider the other person to be better than

yourself, so that nobody thinks of his own interest
first but everybody thinks of other people·s interest
instead. In your minds you must be the same as
Christ Jesus
(Philippians 2:3-4)

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Real bearing begins when someone loves enough to want
to hear and takes time to listen with the ears of his heart.

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Full-hearted acceptance of other members as they are.
Christian tolerance is one of the most effective ways to
bear another·s burden.

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Accept each other as you are, just as Jesus accepted us.

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Sharing in practice

ëYou must carry each other·s troubles and fulfill the law of
God
(Galatians 6:2)

ëBear with one another charitably, in complete

selflessness, gentleness and patience.
(Ephesians 4:2)
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ëOurs were the sufferings He bore, ours the sorrows He

carried
(Isaiah 53:4)

JESUS ILL BEAR OUR BURDENS FOR US

 THROUGH JESUS CHRIST·S RISEN PRESENCE IN THE
CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY

ëBlessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, a

gentle Father and a God of all consolation, who comforts
us in all our sorrows, so that we can offer others, in their
sorrows, the consolation we have received from God
ourselves. Indeed, as the sufferings of Christ overflow to
us, through Christ, does our consolation overflow

(2 Corinthians 1:3,5)

GOD ILL CONTINUALLY GIVE US THE GRACE TO BEAR

AS GOD HAS GIVEN US,
SO ALSO MUST E GIVE