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Subject: Daily Inspiration by and for SCVLP pastors
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 15:27:19 -0700
From: "Bea Chun" <pastorchun@cgslc.org>
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From: "Bea Chun" <pastorchun@cgslc.org>
To: "SCVLP Pastors' Group" <scvlp@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Daily Inspiration by and for SCVLP pastors
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 15:27:19 -0700
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The Ministry of holding one's tongue.

It must be a decisive rule of every Christian fellowship that each
individual is prohibited from saying much that occurs to him.. 

Where this discipline of the tongue is practiced right from the beginning,
each individual will make a matchless discovery. He will be able to cease
from constantly scrutinizing the other person, judging him, condemning him..
Now he can allow the brother to exist as a completely free person, as God
made him to be. 

Now the other person, in the freedom with which he was created, becomes the
occasion of joy, whereas before he was only a nuisance and an affliction.
God does not will that I should fashion the other person according to the
image that seems good to me, that is, in my own image; rather in his very
freedom from me, God made this person in His image. I can never know
beforehand how God's image should appear in others. 

 

Source: "Life Together" by Dietrich Bonhoeffer (found on the inward/outward
website)

 

Note: I am sharing this devotion, even though this is not my assigned day.
But we had several new subscribers to the google list who wanted to verify
that they are on, so I thought I might as well share a devotion.

 

Bea

 


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beginning, each individual will make a matchless discovery. He will be able=
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cease from constantly scrutinizing the other person, judging him, condemnin=
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God does not will that I should fashion the other person according to the i=
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the inward/outward website)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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12.0pt'>Note: I am sharing this devotion, even though this is not my assign=
ed
day. But we had several new subscribers to the google list who wanted to ve=
rify
that they are on, so I thought I might as well share a devotion.<o:p></o:p>=
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