A Call for Calm
You all may have noticed lately a few threads being locked, this was due to many breaches of the rules, a lot of disrespect, insults, hate, targeted personal attacks, denominational attacks, a lot of trying to tear each other down and a lot of heated argument was going on in these threads.
It disappoints me and other members to see a lot of threads ending up in heated arguments and it's not a good look to the outsiders and passer-byers on CyB. Keep in mind according to 2 Corinthians 5:20 "We are ambassadors for Christ". So if we can all do our bit to try and avoid heated arguments that would be great.
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So I ask that all of us on these forums calm down, learn to respect, learn to love one another a bit more, less argument and more getting along.
We need to remember Jesus's 2 commandments from
Matthew 22:37-39 "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. "This is the first and great commandment. "And the second is like it: You shall love your neighbour as yourself."
We also need to remember the fruits of the Spirit from Galatians 5:22-23 "the fruit of the Spirit are love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control."
As Christians we should not be trying to wipe each other out. As the body of Christ, each member is important. It doesn't matter whether if you are Baptist, Lutheran, Orthodox, Pentecostal, Catholic, Presbyterian, Anglican, Methodist, some other denomination or a Non-denominational Christian, if you have accepted Jesus as your Lord and Savior and believe that God has raised Him "Jesus Christ" from the dead, we believe you are born again and have received Jesus in your heart and are now a member of the Body of Christ.
John 5:24
"Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgement, but has passed from death into life."
Romans 10:9-10
"That if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved."
Also for the Body of Christ see
1 Corinthians 12:12-27
12 For as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ. 13 For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body - whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free - and have all been made to drink into one Spirit.
14 For in fact the body is not one member but many. 15 If the foot should say, "Because I am not a hand, I am not of the body," is it therefore not of the body? 16And if the ear should say, "Because I am not an eye, I am not of the body," is it therefore not of the body? 17 If the whole body were an eye, where would be the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where would be the smelling? 18 But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body just as He pleased. 19 And if they were all one member, where would the body be? 20 But now indeed there are many members, yet one body.
21 And the eye cannot say to the hand, "I have no need of you"; nor again the head to the feet, "I have no need of you." 22 No, much rather, those members of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary. 23And those members of the body which we think to be less honorable, on these we bestow greater honor; and our unpresentable parts have greater modesty,24 but our presentable parts have no need. But God composed the body, having given greater honor to that part which lacks it, 25 that there should be no schism in the body, but that the members should have the same care for one another. 26 And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; or if one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.
27 Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually.
So fellow members of the Body of Christ, fellow Believers please try and get along.
May God Bless you all and God's peace and joy be with you.
You all may have noticed lately a few threads being locked, this was due to many breaches of the rules, a lot of disrespect, insults, hate, targeted personal attacks, denominational attacks, a lot of trying to tear each other down and a lot of heated argument was going on in these threads.
It disappoints me and other members to see a lot of threads ending up in heated arguments and it's not a good look to the outsiders and passer-byers on CyB. Keep in mind according to 2 Corinthians 5:20 "We are ambassadors for Christ". So if we can all do our bit to try and avoid heated arguments that would be great.
Christianity Board Forum Rules
So I ask that all of us on these forums calm down, learn to respect, learn to love one another a bit more, less argument and more getting along.
We need to remember Jesus's 2 commandments from
Matthew 22:37-39 "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. "This is the first and great commandment. "And the second is like it: You shall love your neighbour as yourself."
We also need to remember the fruits of the Spirit from Galatians 5:22-23 "the fruit of the Spirit are love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control."
As Christians we should not be trying to wipe each other out. As the body of Christ, each member is important. It doesn't matter whether if you are Baptist, Lutheran, Orthodox, Pentecostal, Catholic, Presbyterian, Anglican, Methodist, some other denomination or a Non-denominational Christian, if you have accepted Jesus as your Lord and Savior and believe that God has raised Him "Jesus Christ" from the dead, we believe you are born again and have received Jesus in your heart and are now a member of the Body of Christ.
John 5:24
"Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgement, but has passed from death into life."
Romans 10:9-10
"That if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved."
Also for the Body of Christ see
1 Corinthians 12:12-27
12 For as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ. 13 For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body - whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free - and have all been made to drink into one Spirit.
14 For in fact the body is not one member but many. 15 If the foot should say, "Because I am not a hand, I am not of the body," is it therefore not of the body? 16And if the ear should say, "Because I am not an eye, I am not of the body," is it therefore not of the body? 17 If the whole body were an eye, where would be the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where would be the smelling? 18 But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body just as He pleased. 19 And if they were all one member, where would the body be? 20 But now indeed there are many members, yet one body.
21 And the eye cannot say to the hand, "I have no need of you"; nor again the head to the feet, "I have no need of you." 22 No, much rather, those members of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary. 23And those members of the body which we think to be less honorable, on these we bestow greater honor; and our unpresentable parts have greater modesty,24 but our presentable parts have no need. But God composed the body, having given greater honor to that part which lacks it, 25 that there should be no schism in the body, but that the members should have the same care for one another. 26 And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; or if one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.
27 Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually.
So fellow members of the Body of Christ, fellow Believers please try and get along.
May God Bless you all and God's peace and joy be with you.
