Have you ever said something you wish you could take back? <\/p>\n
Chuck Swindoll writes: \u2018We act impulsively and realise, after the fact, how foolish we were\u2026 On top of all that, we hurt the ones we love the most. All this stuff caves in on us\u2026 and we wonder how anybody could ever love us\u2026 especially God. When we start thinking like this, we need to turn our mind to the \u201cone anothers\u201d in the New Testament. Love one another, build up one another, live in peace with one another, confess your sins to one another, speak to one another, admonish one another, comfort one another, pray for one another. \u201cBear one another\u2019s burdens.\u201d<\/i> (Galatians\u00a06:2\u00a0NKJV) Imagine two mountain hikers. One\u2026 has a\u2026 light pack\u2026 while the other poor soul\u2026 is\u2026 loaded down\u2026 It could be a long-standing grudge\u2026 poisoning his insides\u2026 a broken relationship with his wife or one of his kids. That pack could be loaded with unpaid bills. The question is, Where can\u2026 [he] go to unload? By sitting in church alongside a\u2026 couple thousand other folks? Hardly. What he needs\u2026 is\u2026 a place where there is person-to-person caring and\u2026 authentic sharing. Where he will feel free, without embarrassment\u2026 to tell his secret or state his struggle; where someone will listen, help him unload, and give him fresh strength. Adult fellowships\u2026 are not miniature church services. They are pockets of people who love Christ and believe in helping one another. They don\u2019t point fingers or preach or compare. They are your brothers and sisters in Christ\u2026 Are you involved in a\u2026 fellowship group? If not, consider joining or starting [one].\u2019 <\/p>\n
Once you begin unloading, you will discover how much easier the journey seems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Have you ever said something you wish you could take back? Chuck Swindoll writes: \u2018We act impulsively and realise, after the fact, how foolish we were\u2026 On top of all that, we hurt the ones we love the most. All this stuff caves in on us\u2026 and we wonder how anybody could ever love us\u2026 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}