Love One Another With Broth-Erly Love
We are called to love one another with the same love that Christ showed us, a love that forgives and overlooks our faults.
Mary Wilder Tileston, through the words of Arthur C. A. Hall and Arthur P. Stanley, emphasizes the importance of showing brotherly love, compassion, and courtesy towards one another. She encourages believers to let their faith transform them into considerate, loving, and attractive individuals who genuinely care for the well-being of others. The sermon highlights the unconditional love that Christ demonstrated by seeing and loving the good in everyone, despite their faults and differences, and challenges listeners to do the same, focusing on the positive aspects of those around them rather than magnifying weaknesses.
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Be kindly affectioned one to another with broth-erly love.
ROMANS 12:10
Love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous.
I PETER 3:8
LET your religion make you more considerate, more loving and attractive, more able to think of and enter into the pleasure and interests of others.
ARTHUR C. A. HALL
LOVE one another in spite of your differences, in spite of your faults. Love one another, and make the best of one another, as He loved us, who, for the sake of saving what was good in the human soul, for-got, forgave, put out of sight what was bad--who saw and loved what was good even in the publican Zac-cheus, even in the penitent Magdalen, even in the expiring malefactor, even in the heretical Samaritan, even in the Pharisee Nicodemus, even in the heathen soldier, even in the outcast Canaanite. It is very easy to fix our attention only on the weak points of those around us, to magnify them, to irritate them, to ag-gravate them; and, by so doing, we can make the burden of life unendurable, and can destroy our own and others' happiness and usefulness wherever we go. But this was not the love wherewith Christ loved us; this is not the new love wherewith we are to love one another.
ARTHUR P. STANLEY
Sermon Outline
- The Call to Love One Another
- The Character of Christ's Love
- The Contrast with Human Love
- Fixing attention on the weak points of others
- Magnifying and irritating others' faults
Key Quotes
“Love one another in spite of your differences, in spite of your faults.” — Mary Wilder Tileston
“It is very easy to fix our attention only on the weak points of those around us, to magnify them, to irritate them, to aggravate them;” — Mary Wilder Tileston
Application Points
- Make a conscious effort to see and love what is good in others, rather than focusing on their weaknesses.
- Practice forgiveness and overlooking of faults in your relationships with others.
- Strive to show kindness and affection towards those around you, just as Christ loved us.