RECONCILIATION;
CHURCH: UNITY

Many a congregation has been renewed and blessed when believers have been willing to reopen the Bible wells of reconciliation and confession. When Christians are harboring hard feelings against each other, they need to be reconciled. They need to confess and ask forgiveness.

I refer here to actual sins and faults. There are people in continual bondage to mere trifles and inconsequential matters. God has given us the Holy Spirit to be our prompter and our guide. And He has given us good sense as well to go along with our consciences.

In sincere and honest confession, two areas are involved. If you have sinned and wronged someone, you need to take the matter to the Lord first and receive His forgiveness. Then you need to go to the person you have wronged and ask his or her forgiveness.

Matthew 5:23–24; Ephesians 4:1–6; Ephesians 4:31–32; Colossians 3:12–14

Men Who Met God, 42.