Therapeutic One Anothers: Encourage

Therapeutic One Anothers: Encourage

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Title: Therapeutic One Anothers: Encourage ----------- Date: 1/26/2000
Keywords: "encourage" "one another"

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Passages:

1 Thessalonians. 5:11* -

Therefore encourage one another, and build up one another, just as you also are doing.

Hebrews 3:13* -

But encourage one another day after day, as long as it is still called “Today,” lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

Hebrews 10:24-25* -

24. and let us consider how to stimulate one another to love and good deeds,

25. not forsaking our own assembling together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another; and all the more, as you see the day drawing near.

Questions

1. According to 1 Thessalonians 5:11, we are to “build up one another.” What do you think of when you envision someone “building up” someone else?

2. According to Hebrews 3:13, what is one of the benefits of encouragement?

3. According to Hebrews 10:24-25, what are we to encourage each other to DO?

Practical help

There is something undeniably positive about the verses in Scripture that mention encouragement. They bring to mind a friend trying to help another friend make progress in some regard.

That is what Christians are to do and be for each other - encouragers. If you are wrestling with Internet porn, hear this loud and clear from the eXXit team: You will make more progress in your wrestling match against pornography by pursuing love and good deeds than you will by seeking to avoid porn!

Resisting temptation is good and necessary, but it is only the small half of the equation. The greater part is the need to replace what you are resisting with what is good, namely LOVE for others. Search out a community of friends in Christ where there is this mutual commitment to encouragement and to building up. Watch the power of God work change in your life through the powerful dynamic of biblical “one anothering.”

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*"Scripture taken from the NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLEŽ, Š Copyright The Lockman Foundation 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995. Used by permission."