1 / 30

Tolerance

Tolerance. V.S. Condemnation. Tolerance is accepting others at different levels of maturity. Tolerance is being more concerned with communicating Christ’s love and truth than change outward appearance or attitudes. Tolerance is motivated By remembering how patient God has been

webb
Download Presentation

Tolerance

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Tolerance V.S. Condemnation

  2. Tolerance is accepting others at different levels of maturity.

  3. Tolerance is being more concerned with communicating Christ’s love and truth than change outward appearance or attitudes.

  4. Tolerance is motivated By remembering how patient God has been with us in our failures.

  5. Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation

  6. Eastern Box Turtle

  7. Eastern Box Turtle rests in the security of its protective covering. It endures the irritations of curious predators as they try in vain to pry open it’s hinged shell.

  8. Once the irritation is gone, the turtle confidently continues about it’s business.

  9. Tolerance is looking beyond the wrong ideas and behaviors of people and seeing the needs and struggles in their lives.

  10. To tolerate people means to not argue with them, this is consistent with the Instruction of Scripture..

  11. Bible Says…. And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient. (II Timothy 2:24)

  12. Tolerance is not changing God’s standards but living them out in such a way that others will want to follow them.

  13. Never mistake God’s tolerance of a sinner as tolerance of sin.

  14. How to Show Tolerance

  15. Concern more about showing love to people than convincing them of the error of their ways.

  16. Personal Evaluation

  17. Personal Evaluation Do you make allowances for those who are not as wise and mature as they should be?

  18. Personal Evaluation When you see faults in others, does it motivate you to be an example of Godly living before them?

  19. Personal Evaluation Do you make greater allowances for unbelievers than you do for believers?

  20. Personal Evaluation Do you serve people regardless of their viewpoints and ask God to change those who need changing?

  21. Five I Will

  22. I Will Not confuse what is right with what is popular.

  23. I Will Expect the same of myself As I expect others.

  24. I Will Looks for ways to help others mature.

  25. I Will Accepts the “unchangeable” of others.

  26. I Will Listen before I form an opinion.

  27. The End

More Related