We ought always to thank God for you, brothers, and rightly so, because your faith is growing more and more, and the love every one of you has for each other is increasing.
Throughout Paul's letters you see this kind of encouragement over and over. While he corrected the new Christians he made sure to also build them up with encouragement.
I think of calls that I get from some friends just to check on me and encourage me. We ought to do that with one another more often. To lift each other up in the name of the Lord.
I think this is what Church is all about. Not some checklist of religious activities but personal relationship with the Father through his son and personal relationships with one another. This matches up with the two commandments Jesus gave us which fulfills the entire law!
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