Fellowship With Others
It is better, through honest mistake, to receive him whom Christ rejects, than through uncharitableness to reject him whom Christ has received. [ROOS]
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Ah! Christians, God loses much, and you lose much, and Satan gains much by this, that you do not, will not, walk lovingly together so far as your ways lie together. It is your sin and shame that you do not, that you will not, pray together, and hear together, and confer together, and mourn together, because that in some far lesser things you are not agreed together. [PRASD]
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The early church were careful whom they admitted into fellowship. Every Christian who sinned was only readmitted into fellowship by open repentance. [AFTG]
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Peace and holiness are to be pursued after with the greatest eagerness that can be imagined (Ps. 34:14). [PRASD]
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Christians, it is not a matter of liberty whether you will or you will not pursue after peace, but it is a matter of duty that lies upon you; you are bound be express precept to follow after peace; and though it may seem to fly from you, yet you must pursue after it (Heb. 12:14). [PRASD]
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Dwell more upon the choice things wherein you agree, than upon those things wherein you differ. You agree in most, you differ but in a few; you agree in the greatest and weightiest, as concerning God, Christ, the Spirit, and the Scripture. You differ only in those points that have been long disputable amongst men of greatest piety. [PRASD]
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The local church is not a union of men and women who have agreed to differ but a body that is marked by peace and unity.