What Does it Mean to Build One Another Up and How is it Accomplished?

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Permalink Reply by Leonard T on August 12, 2013 at 5:46pm

... building up one another doesn’t mean always rebuking and correcting one another and also involves speaking spiritual truth in the form of comfort.

Absolutely. Building people up employs different methods depending on the person, need and situation.

 

Regarding Job's friends, keep in mind that what they said was wrong because the content of what they said was wrong.

 

Lord Bless,

LT

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Permalink Reply by Amanda on August 13, 2013 at 8:10am

Very true regarding Job. His friends weren't offering the right kind of correction which only discouraged Job even more. I know that there are times when correction hurts but there have also been many times when the right word of correction really encouraged and comforted me, such as realizing how wrong I was all those years when I thought I had to work to stay saved. Learning that we do not follow Christ's teachings to have our own righteousness (to save ourselves) but to live out His righteousness (because we are saved) was very encouraging correction.

Some of the kinds of comments Job's friends were making, were "Whoever perished being innocent?” and “Where were the righteous cut off?”

What I see is that they were, in essence, saying that would make God unjust. We know God is just and righteous and fair. So they got it wrong. Plus, hearing that stuff had to hurt Job more than he was already hurting.

Job did receive correction regarding the attributes of God when God answered him. Job was struggling to understand God's justice and his friends didn't understand God's justice either.

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Permalink Reply by Leonard T on August 14, 2013 at 5:59pm

Michelle,

Excellent!!!

 

Lord Bless,
LT

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