Post by Lee on May 31, 2014 2:37:32 GMT
THIS letter of Paul's differs from the rest of the epistles in being a private communication on a private matter, affecting only the brother to whom principally it was sent. It is none the less, however, instructive to those who seek to be "followers of Paul as he was of Christ."
It is a model of letter-writing, as it ought to be among brethren. A right mode of intercourse is one of the many things we have to learn on being called "out of darkness into God's marvelous light."
We are too apt to rest content with a change of view; we are too apt to stop short in the process which, rightly worked out, ends in a "new creature."
It is a time before we take on the new man in his entirety. The ways of the old man linger with us in thought, speech, and (too often) in action.
—Bro. Roberts 1970 Berean 14
It is a model of letter-writing, as it ought to be among brethren. A right mode of intercourse is one of the many things we have to learn on being called "out of darkness into God's marvelous light."
We are too apt to rest content with a change of view; we are too apt to stop short in the process which, rightly worked out, ends in a "new creature."
It is a time before we take on the new man in his entirety. The ways of the old man linger with us in thought, speech, and (too often) in action.
—Bro. Roberts 1970 Berean 14