Able to Admonish

There are Delights in Good Fellowship & Dangers in Bad Fellowship! I. The New Testament Model - The “one-anothers” 1. We are competent to counsel - Romans 15:14 • Not written to church leaders 2. We have different levels of competency - Exodus 18:13-27 • The Proverbs (father/mother) 3. *Communicating w/ one another (Words hurt/Words heal - Proverbs 12:18; 15:4; 18:21 • Proverbs 6:16-19; 15:1-2 • Matthew 5:37; 12:33-37 • Ephesians 4:15, 25-33 • Colossians 4:5-6 • James 1:19-20 • James 3:1-12 4. Bearing one another’s burdens - Galatians 6:1-5 • The Context - Gal. 5:13, 15, 26 = Seeing others humbly - vv. 1-2 = Seeing ourselves honestly - vv. 3-5= Seeing our leaders gratefully - vv. 6-10 = Seeing the cross clearly - vv. 11-18