{"id":720,"date":"2018-09-26T22:55:16","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T22:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mminmn.com\/wp\/?p=720"},"modified":"2018-09-26T22:55:16","modified_gmt":"2018-09-26T22:55:16","slug":"christians-are-cheerleaders-to-their-fellow-saints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mminmn.com\/wp\/2018\/09\/26\/christians-are-cheerleaders-to-their-fellow-saints\/","title":{"rendered":"Christians are cheerleaders to their fellow saints."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gmail_default\">A Christian friend called me recently to complain about her coworkers who are fellow believers but don\u2019t have work ethics, which make her as their director to feel very frustrated. She exhausted herself by working overtime to instruct them and also by trying to figure out their spiritual problems and then fix them by her words.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The heavy weight on her back about her responsibility of <span class=\"gmail_default\">trying hard to be<\/span> a good Christian may be taken advantage by satan to accuse her because she was drowning in the darkness of condemnation and guilt and wanted to end her life. And then she called me.<\/p>\n<p>After listening to her for hours, I prayed with her and told her that she has taken the load of others, which is not supposed for her to carry (Galatians 6:5). And I encourages her not<span class=\"gmail_default\"> to<\/span> depend on her own effort to be a saint but fix eyes on Jesus\u2019 finished work and sustaining grace in her life.<\/p>\n<p>I feel that the saints are like cheerleaders instead of the Judge<span class=\"gmail_default\">, <\/span>coming alongside of one another to persevere in pressing on to the end. When we have this motivation in mind, our spoken words are gentle and bringing life to others . However, when we have the legalistic view of \u201cI know better <span class=\"gmail_default\">or I am obedient to the truth <\/span>so that I need to point out your problems to fix <span class=\"il\">you<\/span>\u201d, then we are <span class=\"gmail_default\">carrying<\/span> the unnecessary load, which causes anxiety for both us and the others. Moreover, the Holy Spirit as the wonderful <span class=\"gmail_default\">C<\/span>ounselor is the <span class=\"gmail_default\">O<\/span>ne who can truly change people.<\/p>\n<p>If we think we are equipped with knowledge and skill to fix people\u2019s problems, we will tend to take the credit. On the contrary, if we pray for people and wait for the Holy Spirit to change them, we will give all the glory to God. Isn\u2019t that what angels in the heaven<span class=\"gmail_default\"> always<\/span> do to glorify <span class=\"gmail_default\">our<\/span> Lord? (Revelation 4:8)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Christian friend called me recently to complain about her coworkers who are fellow believers but don\u2019t have work ethics, which make her as their director to feel very frustrated. She exhausted herself by working overtime to instruct them and also by trying to figure out their spiritual problems and then fix them by her &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mminmn.com\/wp\/2018\/09\/26\/christians-are-cheerleaders-to-their-fellow-saints\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Christians are cheerleaders to their fellow saints.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spiritual-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mminmn.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mminmn.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mminmn.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mminmn.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mminmn.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mminmn.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":721,"href":"http:\/\/mminmn.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720\/revisions\/721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mminmn.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mminmn.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mminmn.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}