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Originally Posted by JorgeP
Fraternal greetings. Paul rightly made it clear to us that we put everything to the test and hold on to what is good (1 Thes. 5:23). Thanks to the biblical teaching of exercising the spirit, (without stop my humanity, but still using it) I have been able to advance on a personal level in the discernment of spiritual things and the things of the human life. Although I hardly read the recovery materials now, when I can I want to read all the notes of the recovery version to test them and retain the good. All ministries have strengths and weaknesses, and it is necessary to learn to filter and discern. Being active in the church life in this ministry, through my personal fellowship, I was able to discern many things that were wrong, thank to abundant personal reading of the literal written Word.
Now I am investigating the ministry of the brothers of Onebody life, directed by Henry Hon and it can be seen that the good that the brothers received as a legacy of the recovery ministry, they are knowing how to combine with their new ministerial endeavor, since they are brothers who lasted many years in the recovery movement. It may help if you continue researching the recovery material to take the comments as what they are "comments" and not take them for granted as truth simply because they are in the footnote in the recovery Bible. In fact, the recovery version is a excellent translation, and I continue reading it as well as others that I read before other versions.
Now that I have a more mature multi-ministerial vision, I continue to learn to see ministerial strengths and weaknesses and I take what I consider good and what I consider bad I reject. We cannot say that everything in this ministry is bad or that everything is good. This is why it is necessary to learn to be flexible when it comes to investigating secondary topics, and regarding the main topic, we must all be clear and be radical in maintaining our common faith, which is basically that we believe that Jesus is the only true God and only Him and no one else. The rest can be debated everything else, having empathy and brotherly love with points of view and perspectives different from ours.
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Greetings brothers, blessings, when I quoted the verse I made a mistake placing 1 Thes. 5:23 and I was referring to 1 Thes. 5:21. I want to take advantage of the opportunity to encourage you to persevere in reading, research and in the exercise of discerning things, retaining the good and discarding the bad. Although this forum is primarily about discussing the recovery movement, I believe that the gospel is intended to unite and not divide the Body of Christ.
This is why secondary topics that are not directly the person and work of Jesus can be freely debated but should not divide us, since unity is only in the person and work of Jesus. When we seek communion with other believers, let us persevere in the only communion we have in common, which is in the person and work of Jesus. One of the things that I now realize is that all ministry, preaching, service and Christian work must have as its goal unifying believers and not dividing them, even the debate of secondary issues should not have as its objective to divide us but rather to seek the truth in terms of topics that are not so clear.
How beneficial it is to allow the Lord to shape our attitude and perspective to see that the gospel really unites believers and does not divide them. Let us be more prudent when debating so that the effect is positive in persevering in unity and not encourage more division than there is.