7. Kindness


7a. How is a family kept together?
Family alienation is one of the problems which many who come to Christ, experience. You cannot make your family come to Christ and you do not need to antagonize them because of your new faith. Kindness toward your family is important. It is important to know what priorities God expects in your life. Proper priorities for a Christian life are as follows: 1. Your relationship with God is first 2. Your family relationships are second. God wants every member of your family in His kingdom. He wants to use you to win them. Do not separate yourself from them. 3. Your relationship to your ministry and your fellowship with your local church are third.
Acts 16:29-34	²⁹The jailer called for lights, rushed in and fell trembling before Paul and Silas. ³⁰He then brought them out and asked, "Sirs, what must I do to be saved?" ³¹They replied, "Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved--you and your household." ³²Then they spoke the word of the Lord to him and to all the others in his house. ³³At that hour of the night the jailer took them and washed their wounds; then immediately he and all his family were baptized. ³⁴The jailer brought them into his house and set a meal before them; he was filled with joy because he had come to believe in God--he and his whole family.
1 Timothy 5:4-8	⁴But if a widow has children or grandchildren, these should learn first of all to put their religion into practice by caring for their own family and so repaying their parents and grandparents, for this is pleasing to God. ⁵The widow who is really in need and left all alone puts her hope in God and continues night and day to pray and to ask God for help. ⁶But the widow who lives for pleasure is dead even while she lives. ⁷Give the people these instructions, too, so that no one may be open to blame. ⁸If anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for his immediate family, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
Ephesians 5:25	²⁵Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her
1 Peter 3:7	⁷Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers.
1 Peter 3:1-2	¹Wives, in the same way be submissive to your husbands so that, if any of them do not believe the word, they may be won over without words by the behavior of their wives, ²when they see the purity and reverence of your lives.


7b. Which church should you attend?
If you, like many other new believers, have come to Christ through somebody else's Church. Or maybe you have no church background at all. In either case, its important that you find a church and get plugged in. Perhaps, if there is a church near your home, where you know you will be fed spiritually and helped to grow, you could attend there. Attend church at least once a week Gather with other believers to pray, to study God's Word, to worship, and to witness. Meeting in a small group but that is not enough. You need to be part of a local church. Ask God to guide you in your choice. Once you have chosen a church, become fully involved.
1 Thessalonians 1:6-7	⁶You became imitators of us and of the Lord; in spite of severe suffering, you welcomed the message with the joy given by the Holy Spirit. ⁷And so you became a model to all the believers in Macedonia and Achaia.
1 Thessalonians 1:8	⁸The Lord's message rang out from you not only in Macedonia and Achaia--your faith in God has become known everywhere. Therefore we do not need to say anything about it,
1 Thessalonians 2:13	¹³And we also thank God continually because, when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as it actually is, the word of God, which is at work in you who believe.
1 Thessalonians 4:9-10	⁹Now about brotherly love we do not need to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love each other. ¹⁰And in fact, you do love all the brothers throughout Macedonia. Yet we urge you, brothers, to do so more and more.
1 Thessalonians 3:10	¹⁰Night and day we pray most earnestly that we may see you again and supply what is lacking in your faith.
1 Thessalonians 5:12-22	¹²Now we ask you, brothers, to respect those who work hard among you, who are over you in the Lord and who admonish you. ¹³Hold them in the highest regard in love because of their work. Live in peace with each other. ¹⁴And we urge you, brothers, warn those who are idle, encourage the timid, help the weak, be patient with everyone. ¹⁵Make sure that nobody pays back wrong for wrong, but always try to be kind to each other and to everyone else. ¹⁶Be joyful always; ¹⁷pray continually; ¹⁸give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus. ¹⁹Do not put out the Spirit's fire; ²⁰do not treat prophecies with contempt. ²¹Test everything. Hold on to the good. ²²Avoid every kind of evil.





7c. Who should take the Lords supper?
The Lord's Supper, or Communion, is part of our worship and fellowship together. Christ gave it to us as a reminder of His suffering and death for our sins. When you accepted Christ as your personal savior. His blood cleansed you from all sins. You are now pure and holy in God's sight. all this was possible because of the cross. It was our sins that nailed Jesus there. The Lords Supper is a time to remember Christ's sacrifice and to thank Him for His infinite love. As you sit in His presence with faith in your heart, He is able to minister to your every need.
Matthew 26:26-28	²⁶While they were eating, Jesus took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to his disciples, saying, "Take and eat; this is my body." ²⁷Then he took the cup, gave thanks and offered it to them, saying, "Drink from it, all of you. ²⁸This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.
1 Corinthians 10:16-17	¹⁶Is not the cup of thanksgiving for which we give thanks a participation in the blood of Christ? And is not the bread that we break a participation in the body of Christ? ¹⁷Because there is one loaf, we, who are many, are one body, for we all partake of the one loaf.
1 Corinthians 11:27-32	²⁷Therefore, whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of sinning against the body and blood of the Lord. ²⁸A man ought to examine himself before he eats of the bread and drinks of the cup. ²⁹For anyone who eats and drinks without recognizing the body of the Lord eats and drinks judgment on himself. ³⁰That is why many among you are weak and sick, and a number of you have fallen asleep. ³¹But if we judged ourselves, we would not come under judgment. ³²When we are judged by the Lord, we are being disciplined so that we will not be condemned with the world.






7d. What money should be given to God?
All your giving should be motivated by an unselfish love for God and for the world, which has great physical and spiritual needs. If you learn to give and give generously, you will learn the secret of a great blessing. As you give to God, you provide Him with an opportunity to richly bless you - not only financially, but in every area of your life.
2 Corinthians 9:6	⁶Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously.
Leviticus 27:30	³⁰ " 'A tithe of everything from the land, whether grain from the soil or fruit from the trees, belongs to the LORD ; it is holy to the LORD .
Malachi 3:8-10	⁸ "Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me. "But you ask, 'How do we rob you?' "In tithes and offerings. ⁹ You are under a curse-the whole nation of you-because you are robbing me. ¹⁰ Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this," says the LORD Almighty, "and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that you will not have room enough for it.
2 Corinthians 9:7	⁷Each man should give what he has decided in his heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.
2 Corinthians 9:8-11	⁸And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work. ⁹As it is written: "He has scattered abroad his gifts to the poor; his righteousness endures forever." ¹⁰Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness. ¹¹You will be made rich in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion, and through us your generosity will result in thanksgiving to God.
1 Corinthians 9:14	¹⁴In the same way, the Lord has commanded that those who preach the gospel should receive their living from the gospel.
Galatians 6:6	⁶Anyone who receives instruction in the word must share all good things with his instructor.