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Forgiving others is not optional for Christians; it is a command. In Matthew 6:12, Jesus taught us to pray, ‘Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us’. He made it clear that God’s offer of forgiveness is inseparable from our willingness to forgive others. So what is the nature of this link?
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Read Isaiah 52:7 This passage from the prophet Isaiah is also quoted by the apostle Paul (Romans 10:15).
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Men, women and God It is easy to let our own cultural ideas and assumptions influence our understanding of biblical texts. For example, the idea that men are called to lead in the church, and women only to follow, has dominated the thinking about gender for centuries. This is in spite of the large list of women leaders whom Paul greets in the last chapter of Romans. It’s also in spite of the fact that he refers to Phoebe, who has taken the letter to Rome, as a minister. He uses exactly the ...
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God’s provision of healthy food. ; Read Genesis 1:11-13 and Genesis 1:29-31. ; How does God provide for our need to eat?
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Our attitude towards money. God has created and provided us with everything we have, therefore we have a responsibility to look after the resources he has given us. What we have should be viewed as a gift from God and not as something that we have a right to. Acommon worldview is that having wealth is important. However, riches and blessing are not necessarily linked. Many people in the Bible who served God faithfully and were blessed by him were materially poor.
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Income generation and co-operatives. Read 2 Thessalonians 3:6–13. The apostle Paul was deeply troubled by a report that some members of the church at Thessalonica were idle without doing any work, but were active in a wrong way, for example, by interfering in other people’s business (v 11). This created a bad influence in the community which eventually had to take on the burden of providing for such idlers (1Thess 4:2). So Paul, using himself and his friends as models, encourages the ...
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Group discussion guide with nine Bible studies relating to trees and care for creation
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Group discussion guide with eight Bible studies on leadership and relationships in groups
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Group discussion guide with 12 Bible studies suitable for savings groups and self-help groups
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Group discussion guide with 12 Bible studies about cleanliness
