Jeremiah Ketchum
  • Blog
  • About
  • Contact

Speaking Grace

2/9/2012

0 Comments

 
Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person. (Colossians 4:6, ESV)
In thinking about this verse, I jotted down a few others as a commentary on the ways in which our speech should be gracious.
1. Encourage
Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing. (1 Thessalonians 5:11, ESV)
2. Be tender
And we urge you, brothers, admonish the idle, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with them all. (1 Thessalonians 5:14, ESV)
3. Rebuke
My brothers, if anyone among you wanders from the truth and someone brings him back, let him know that whoever brings back a sinner from his wandering will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins. (James 5:19–20, ESV)
4. Teach and challenge
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. (Colossians 3:16, ESV)
5. Give Life
The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life, but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence. (Proverbs 10:11, ESV)
6. Testify to our faith
but in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect, (1 Peter 3:15, ESV)
I realize that not all of these may seem like "imparting grace", especially if you're on the receiving end of, say, a rebuke. But which is gracious: allowing someone to continue on a dangerous path or flagging them down and warning them of the impending hazards of the trail they're traveling? It is God's plan for us to speak grace to people. Let's see what ways we can put these into action this very day.
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Archives

    October 2019
    September 2019
    June 2019
    June 2018
    April 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    November 2017
    October 2017
    June 2016
    January 2016
    November 2015
    October 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    October 2013
    September 2013
    August 2013
    July 2013
    June 2013
    May 2013
    April 2013
    March 2013
    February 2013
    January 2013
    December 2012
    November 2012
    October 2012
    September 2012
    August 2012
    July 2012
    June 2012
    May 2012
    April 2012
    March 2012
    February 2012
    January 2012
    December 2011
    November 2011
    February 2009

    Categories

    All

    RSS Feed

Proudly powered by Weebly
  • Blog
  • About
  • Contact