A good connection is vitally important when...- you’re sending a personal email
- you’re in the mountains and getting driving directions on your cell phone
- you’re plugging in an important piece of equipment
Being connected is also vitally important to our spiritual health. Without developing intimate relationships with other Christians and serving one another, our connection to Christ and the church is weakened. We need one another.
In fact, one way to connect with others is to practice the “one another’s”:
* Love one another (John 13:34,35; Galatians 5:14)
* Encourage one another (Hebrews 3:13; Hebrews 10:24,25; 1 Thessalonians 5:11)
* Be devoted to one another (Romans 12:10)
* Give preference to one another (Romans 12:10)
* Build up one another (Romans 14:19; 1 Thessalonians 5:11)
* Be kind to one another (1 Thessalonians 5:15)
* Live in harmony with one another (Romans 12:16)
* Accept one another (Romans 15:7)
* Serve one another (Galatians 5:13)
* Submit to one another (Ephesians 5:21)
* Have concern for one another (1 Corinthians 12:25)
* Be kind, compassionate, forgiving one other (Ephesians 4:32)
* Carry one another’s burdens (Galatians 6:2)
* Teach and admonish one another (Colossians 3:16)
* Confess your sins to one another (James 5:16)
* Pray for one another (James 5:16)
* Offer hospitality to one another (1 Peter 4:9)
* Don’t judge one another (Romans 14:13)
* Don’t slander one another (James 4:11)
* Don’t provoke one another (Galatians 5:26)
Are you connected? Are you helping others connect?
Prayer starters:
* Pray for an opportunity to practice the “one another’s.”
* Pray for those of us in Chicago this week to “connect.”
“Love each other like brothers and sisters. Give each other more honor than you want for yourselves.” (Romans 12:10 NCV)
