This article will be studied during the week of October 19th through 25th.

An appeal on the basis of love.

Theme text.

I would rather appeal to you on the basis of love.

Philemon 9.

Song 106.

Cultivating the Quality of Love.

Focus.

What we learn about promoting peace in the congregation from the Apostle Paul, Philemon, and Onesimus.

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What responsibility do we all have?

We cherish the peace we enjoy among Jehovah's people. This piece gives us a taste of how good life will be in paradise.

Although Jehovah grants us this peace, we have a personal responsibility to maintain and protect it. How can we promote

peace in the congregation when interacting with others? When we offend someone? When someone offends us?

The answers are found in an appeal made on the basis of love. This appeal involved three Bible characters,

the Apostle Paul, Philemon, and Onesimus. The Appeal

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Summarize the account of Philemon and Onesimus.

Philemon 8 and 9 reads,

For this very reason, though I have great freeness of speech and connection with Christ,

to order you to do what is proper, I would rather appeal to you on the basis of love,

seeing that I am Paul, an older man, yes, now also a prisoner

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