Popular Post Debp Posted September 30, 2018 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 52 Topic Count: 1,020 Topics Per Day: 0.15 Content Count: 12,310 Content Per Day: 1.80 Reputation: 16,366 Days Won: 92 Joined: 07/19/2005 Status: Online Popular Post Share Posted September 30, 2018 Just want to bring up the importance of kindness. We never know what a person has gone through or is currently going through....so it's important to always be kind to others. 4 1 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not me Posted September 30, 2018 Group: Royal Member Followers: 14 Topic Count: 512 Topics Per Day: 0.23 Content Count: 3,189 Content Per Day: 1.44 Reputation: 3,351 Days Won: 1 Joined: 04/06/2018 Status: Offline Share Posted September 30, 2018 (edited) 56 minutes ago, Debp said: Just want to bring up the importance of kindness. We never know what a person has gone through or is currently going through....so it's important to always be kind to others. So true! Kindness is classified as one of the fruits of the Spirit. Which can only be manifested by Christ being formed in the life of the believer. Which itself is a fruit of someone’s personal relationship with Christ. May we all as those that lay claim to Christ have Christ formed in our hearts that He might be read by all man. Or in other words that the Fruits of the Spirit might be manifested to all at all times. Much love in Christ, Not me Edited September 30, 2018 by Not me 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Debp Posted September 30, 2018 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 52 Topic Count: 1,020 Topics Per Day: 0.15 Content Count: 12,310 Content Per Day: 1.80 Reputation: 16,366 Days Won: 92 Joined: 07/19/2005 Status: Online Author Share Posted September 30, 2018 And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake has forgiven you. Ephesians 4:32 And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us, and has given Himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savor. Ephesians 5:2 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Sower Posted October 1, 2018 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 14 Topic Count: 32 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 5,248 Content Per Day: 0.97 Reputation: 5,852 Days Won: 1 Joined: 07/09/2009 Status: Offline Popular Post Share Posted October 1, 2018 16 hours ago, Debp said: Just want to bring up the importance of kindness. We never know what a person has gone through or is currently going through....so it's important to always be kind to others. "Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle" Besides, "Kindness is a language the dumb can speak. And the deaf can understand" A virtuous woman--She opened her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness. pro 31;26 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turtletwo Posted October 1, 2018 Group: Royal Member Followers: 35 Topic Count: 1,192 Topics Per Day: 0.19 Content Count: 7,264 Content Per Day: 1.18 Reputation: 15,710 Days Won: 194 Joined: 07/15/2007 Status: Offline Share Posted October 1, 2018 I love this topic, Debp. Thanks for posting it. Sadly, kindness is sometimes under discussed and under rated. Worst of all, is when it is under practiced. Yet it is such a significant trait of a Christian. I wanted to share some of my favorite verses on this topic: "Do not let kindness and truth leave you; Bind them around your neck, Write them on the tablet of your heart." Proverbs 3:3 "And what does the LORD require of you But to do justice, to love kindness, And to walk humbly with your God?" Micah 6:8 "So, as those who have been chosen of God, holy and beloved, put on a heart of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience." Colossians 3:12 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JTC Posted October 1, 2018 Group: Royal Member Followers: 18 Topic Count: 200 Topics Per Day: 0.05 Content Count: 2,795 Content Per Day: 0.65 Reputation: 1,502 Days Won: 1 Joined: 06/25/2012 Status: Offline Birthday: 07/26/1952 Share Posted October 1, 2018 In my understanding kindness is one of the main ways we can know real Christians from phony ones. It's so easy to say you are a believer but the true believers are those who obey Jesus. And kindness is one of the things Jesus stressed above all else. Even if we overlook when Jesus was killed, just consider all the times He was accused of being of the devil, and all the times He looked past a person's sins because that person was showing kindness to Him. Again we see what we do, and how we feel, this is what matters to God. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Debp Posted October 11, 2018 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 52 Topic Count: 1,020 Topics Per Day: 0.15 Content Count: 12,310 Content Per Day: 1.80 Reputation: 16,366 Days Won: 92 Joined: 07/19/2005 Status: Online Author Share Posted October 11, 2018 I always appreciate when a kindness is done for me. If you can't do much for some reason, one can always be kind with our words, especially to the hurting and ill. Even on a Christian forum, we can be kind and perhaps that will help someone along the way. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GandalfTheWise Posted October 11, 2018 Group: Royal Member Followers: 24 Topic Count: 40 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 1,459 Content Per Day: 0.60 Reputation: 2,377 Days Won: 2 Joined: 08/23/2017 Status: Offline Share Posted October 11, 2018 1 hour ago, Debp said: I always appreciate when a kindness is done for me. If you can't do much for some reason, one can always be kind with our words, especially to the hurting and ill. Even on a Christian forum, we can be kind and perhaps that will help someone along the way. Sadly, it took me many years to realize the tone and form of my words was every bit as important as the content. You never know when an ill-spoken truth can crush a hurting soul when that same truth when kindly and gently spoken can uplift that same soul. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Your closest friendnt Posted October 12, 2018 Group: Royal Member Followers: 18 Topic Count: 8 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 7,853 Content Per Day: 2.42 Reputation: 2,761 Days Won: 3 Joined: 06/05/2015 Status: Offline Share Posted October 12, 2018 On 9/30/2018 at 7:41 AM, Not me said: So true! Kindness is classified as one of the fruits of the Spirit. Which can only be manifested by Christ being formed in the life of the believer. Which itself is a fruit of someone’s personal relationship with Christ. May we all as those that lay claim to Christ have Christ formed in our hearts that He might be read by all man. Or in other words that the Fruits of the Spirit might be manifested to all at all times. Much love in Christ, Not me Kindness can also be a weapon for the Antichrist... The same way "love your neibour " can be a reason for someone's denial of the faith of Jesus Christ... Goodness also is big aset in the hands of the Antichrist...together with the frace "God is good", "God is Love", God is Kind", and God is forgiving", Aal of this without the faith of Jesus Christ... Your post suggest that if someone abides in Kindness, love, goodness, forgivness and so on is because Christ is formed in them... So many who don't believe that Jesus has died from the forgiveness for our sins and raised from the dead, can say or others can say: Look at those kind and good charitable people Christ must have been formed in them... Where Christ has nothing to do with that... Paul said that I have met many Idolaters Gentiles who have many of the fruits of the Spirit active in their lives that put many of you to shame... The Holy Spirit can help us to grow in those atributes as part of our lives and help us forgive where we could not forgive before...and be charitable to people we could not be before... But we do not have the right to stereotype those who are not of the faith that they do not have those qualities and we cannot find Kind and good and charitable people among unbelievers... When in fact most not Christian orders believe in good works of kindness and love to have the blessings of their God, or the good karma..Believing to do good so good can returned unto you. The Gospel Paul said is for not only bad people but also for the good and charitable and peace makers and so on... Because Jesus died for all, and everyone needs to believe in Jesus Christ for Heaven and for many reasons, one of them is that God gave the Heaven to Jesus Christ as his inheritance and for those who believe in him...even if they are not good, kind and charitable and unforgiving and so on... Hope you will not misunderstand me, because I am not defending my self, but I believe this is the truth... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not me Posted October 12, 2018 Group: Royal Member Followers: 14 Topic Count: 512 Topics Per Day: 0.23 Content Count: 3,189 Content Per Day: 1.44 Reputation: 3,351 Days Won: 1 Joined: 04/06/2018 Status: Offline Share Posted October 12, 2018 (edited) 6 hours ago, Your closest friendnt said: Hope you will not misunderstand me, because I am not defending my self, but I believe this is the truth... As a fellow believer I would not make lite or misunderstand your faith. I would and could only point you to Christ that our personal relationship with Him would abound and abound. Much love in Christ, Not me Edited October 12, 2018 by Not me 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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