What to avoid

Have you ever noticed in Scripture how we are told to avoid meaningless quarrels and controversies? We see this in 1 Timothy 1

you may charge certain persons not to teach any different doctrine, nor to devote themselves to myths and endless genealogies"

, and in 2 Timothy

Have nothing to do with foolish, ignorant controversies; you know that they breed quarrels.

" Titus 3:

But avoid foolish controversies and genealogies and arguments and quarrels about the law, because these are unprofitable and useless."

Why? because they are unprofitable and useless, they detract from what we are really to be doing.

Have you ever noticed how often we are told what to really focus on? Our focus is always to be on God, not on ourselves. Micah 6 tells us "

He has showed you, O man, what is good.
And what does the LORD require of you?
To act justly and to love mercy
and to walk humbly with your God.

Our focus needs to be on God and his love. We need to know him, preach him and Christ's resurrection.

And the Lord's servant must not be quarrelsome but kind to everyone, able to teach, patiently enduring evil, 25correcting his opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth, 26and they may escape from the snare of the devil, after being captured by him to do his will.

We need to see the larger picture in what we say and do. We can't be a people so focused on ourselves that all we do is complain when things don't go our way. Kim talks about that abit here. Can you see what it does to people looking in at us? To see us caught up in our own dissatisfaction? Our focus as God's people, NEEDS to be on our Lord and Saviour. No ifs, ands or buts.

We can't be caught up in the "my church does this well", "my denomination is good for this" and "man, I wish my denomination would do this" and then fighting about with others. What is our focus really?

In my denomination it often seems the focus in "the 10 year plan" but first we have to figure out if Gays and Lesbians can be "equal" in our denomination. Equal meaning, having all the same positions in life that everyone else has, regardless of what their lives are showing about what they believe. Not meaning, equal as in being welcome the same as any other person struggling with the sin in their lives. It's wrong to do this folks. It takes us away from our real focus... God and HIS glory. Showing HIS love to those around us.

Sometimes I feel like I'm beating my head against a wall....