Families run on relationships.   If they run on anything else, it's not relationships. Bible Verses: 1 Timothy 3:14-16 1 Timothy 1:1-20 "Salvation belongs to our Lord" We cannot be saved except by what the Lord Jesus Christ has accomplished on the  cross. If there is any other message other than Christ crucified and raised again on the third day; than it is not the message of the Gospel. Gospel  = Good News! Believers in Christ Jesus belongs to the family of God.  We are to live , love and function in our family. The early church did not run programmes; they loved one another and it reflected to the people around them.   The early church grew rapidly because believers obeyed the command of the Lord to love one another. What a family values comes out in how they behave and what they place importance on. We are called to love one another.   We are a diverse family; living in unity not uniformity. God's family values what God values.

It's important how we live.  In Australia, people say it doesn't matter what we do in private.   But it does affect.  Living as a Christian is very important. Bible Reference:  1 Peter 2:21-25 1 Peter chapter 1 Being A True Christian If we don't believe it, then we may as well join a Social club.  Living as a Christian matters.   How we live matters in both our private and public life.   What we do in private will reflect in our public life; what people see. We are to become obedient to Jesus Christ.   Not to the latest program; person; activity. God made a new covenant with the Gentile people because Israel walked away from the covenant God had with them.  He never did away with the covenant He made we with Israel. Romans 6:17-18 You will be with God or be with the enemy.   You will live with and be obedient to God or you will be obedient to the enemy.   Reinhart Bonkhe - a lot of Christians run around and put a bit of holy on.  But to put the blood of Jesus on is

Bible References:  1 John 4:7-21; 1 John 3:1-18; Roman's 12:1-2; John 8:28-52 God's love is not an emotion, but is His nature, governing His actions. True Salvation: Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. 1 John 4:7-8 True Fellowship: No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.   This is how we know that we live in him and he in us: He has given us of his Spirit. 1 John 4:12-13 True Faith:  If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in them and they in God.  And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. 1 John 4:15-16 True Obedience: We love because he first loved us. Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their bro

What Makes Me Righteous?  God.  Through Jesus we are  made righteous.  Can two walk together except they be in agreement?  In marriage it takes one to keep it together; but it takes two to make it flourish and grow.  The same for a church or a family. Bible Reference:   1 John 2:3-17, 28-29 Romans 5:18-19 The whole issue of being righteous to God is being obedient.   Everyone is righteous to something.  I would hope that for a Christian, it would be to God. Ephesians 2: 1-3 We trust in Jesus to make us right.   We remember that before we come to Christ we were disobedient. As Christians, we are a separated people. Hebrews 5:9 We have to turn to Jesus Christ and obey and follow him. We obey the Word of God and live as He wanted.  We went through emotional things but this is not about emotion. Philippians 2:12 We need to be obedient to God and grow up. Children that are disobedient to their parents are everywhere.  In the Lord we have to grow up.  He wants us to grow up and le

Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we boast in the hope of the glory of God. Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us. Romans 5:1‭-‬5 NIV https://bible.com/bible/111/rom.5.1-5.NIV