ATTITUDE ADJUSTMENT ADVICE

ATTITUDE ADJUSTMENT ADVICE
* Someone has said,
"The greatest enemy of that which is best, is that which is good."
Don't miss the best because you doggedly grip the good.

* It is like,
You can win arguments but lose relationships. If a relationship is actually lost because of an issue, that is one thing: But if a relationship is lost because of arguing for an issue, that is another thing.

* Being right is important, but being loving is the best way (the only right way) to show that you are right. And sometimes loving silence is more right than verbally assaulting someone with what you consider to be correct.

* To tweak a popular phrase, (It is nice to be important, but it is more important to be nice); It is nice to be right, but sometimes it is more right to be nice.

* Remember, it is more important to win souls than to win arguments.
or
What a shame to win arguments but lose souls, relationships, friends, loved ones.

* Let the sharpness of the Scriptures and the wisdom of the Holy Spirit do the surgery, since sharpness of the tongue and the wisdom of human passion may cut more like butchery.

* Never blame another person for your own insensitivity. You can't spew out venom and then tell the other person to, "Just deal with it."

* We are headed into some stormy weather ahead. We need to be the best crew and shipmates we can be on the Old Ship of Zion (it is also called Fellowship).

* Our battle is not with flesh and blood (men) but with demonic powers. Though we fight the denizens of the dark, our mission is to rescue the perishing. We are to offer those in who are in trouble a lifeline, not a shot across their bow.

But what do I know? I have only been a born again believer for 59 years of my life and Spirit filled for 50 years. I have only been, studying, serving, preaching, pastoring, teaching, and counseling for 50 years.