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In this passage, Paul calls us as Jesus followers to cease from tearing one another down as this tears apart Christ’s body of the global church and grieves the Holy Spirit.
Rather, we’ve each been given the lifework of building up and benefiting one another with every single word we say, for it is in the deep inner work of being kind and tenderhearted, forgiving one another, that we find the heartbeat of Jesus—who has been radically kind, tenderhearted, and forgiving to us.

In this passage, Paul calls us as Jesus followers to cease from tearing one another down as this tears apart Christ’s body of the global church and grieves the Holy Spirit.


Rather, we’ve each been given the lifework of building up and benefiting one another with every single word we say, for it is in the deep inner work of being kind and tenderhearted, forgiving one another, that we find the heartbeat of Jesus—who has been radically kind, tenderhearted, and forgiving to us.