Love One Another - How to Love Those Who are "Different", Part 2
Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast
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🗓️ 12 March 2025
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Summary
Do you find it hard to not make judgments about people based on their clothes, or hair, or the car they drive? You know God looks on the heart, but you just can’t get past that outward appearance. What do you do? Chip reveals Jesus’ remedy for passing judgment on those who are different from us.
Main Points
To love each other the way Jesus loved His disciples means we must accept one another, just as Christ accepted us, in order to bring glory to God!
Dr. Larry Crabb – Connecting, page 66: “Connecting is a kind of relating that happens when the powerful life of Christ in one person meets the good life of Christ in another. What every Christian can pour into another is the powerful passion of acceptance, a passion that flows out of the center of the gospel, a passion that fills the heart of God.”
What does it mean to “accept one another?”
- Meaning of the word “Accept.”
- Meaning from the context. --Romans 15:1-6
- Meaning from the New Testament.
- Meaning from the text. --Romans 15:7
- Legalism: Judging others’ faith by extra-Biblical standards. --Romans 14
- Favoritism: Judging other by external appearance or possessions. --2 Corinthians 5:16; James 2:1-5
- Pre-judging: Judging others based on preconceived notions about them. --Luke 6:37
- Mind-reading: Judging others in areas that are impossible for us to assess. --1 Corinthians 4:1-5
- … interpersonal conflict in the church. --1 Corinthians 6:2-5
- … immoral behavior in the church. --1 Corinthians 5:1-6;1 Timothy 5:20
- … those who sin against us. --Matthew 18:15-17
- … when placed in positions of spiritual responsibility. --2 Timothy 4:1-3
- … to maintain doctrinal purity. --2 Timothy 4:15
- … when church unity is threatened. --Titus 1:10; 1 Timothy 5:20
- Remember what is at stake!
- Refuse to compare!
- Renew your view of others!
- Memorize: 2 Corinthians 5:16
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About Chip Ingram
Chip Ingram’s passion is helping Christians really live like Christians. As a pastor, author, and teacher for more than three decades, Chip has helped believers around the world move from spiritual spectators to healthy, authentic disciples of Jesus by living out God’s truth in their lives and relationships in transformational ways.
About Living on the Edge
Living on the Edge exists to help Christians live like Christians. Established in 1995 as the radio ministry of pastor and author Chip Ingram, God has since grown it into a global discipleship ministry. Living on the Edge provides Biblical teaching and discipleship resources that challenge and equip spiritually hungry Christians all over the world to become mature disciples of Jesus.
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| 0:00.0 | Do you find yourself looking at people and making a judgment about what they think, what they're like? |
| 0:07.2 | Do you know down deep in your heart that God doesn't look on the outside, but you just find you can't get past it sometimes? |
| 0:14.4 | I know I do. |
| 0:15.8 | We can learn to look at people the way God does. |
| 0:20.0 | And that's what we'll learn today. |
| 0:26.3 | Thank you for being with us for this edition of Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram. |
| 0:31.2 | Chip Ingram serves as our Bible teacher for this global teaching and discipleship ministry, |
| 0:35.8 | helping Christians develop an authentic faith. |
| 0:38.8 | And you know, followers of Jesus aren't known for being genuine or caring nowadays. |
| 0:43.5 | We're often labeled as judgmental critics. |
| 0:46.2 | We tend to make unfair assumptions about a person that damages their character, and yet we |
| 0:51.3 | know how hurtful it is when someone does it to us. |
| 0:55.1 | Well, today, Chipp will motivate us to break out of that attitude as he continues his series, Love One Another. He has a lot |
| 1:00.9 | of wisdom to share. So let's join Chip now for part two of his talk, How to Love Those Who Are |
| 1:05.8 | Different. Let me give you four reasons from Scripture why it's so hard to accept one another. |
| 1:13.6 | Just going to highlight them. |
| 1:15.6 | Four roadblocks, four enemies, to genuine, authentic, biblical acceptance that leads to life in relationships. |
| 1:25.6 | The first one is judging others' faith by extra-biblical standards. |
| 1:31.7 | The technical term for it is legalism. Legalism is judging others by extra-biblical standards. |
| 1:39.4 | And what I mean by extra-biblical is that we evaluate things not based on what the Bible |
| 1:43.3 | actually says, but by |
| 1:45.8 | other stuff. Let me read Romans 14, 1 to 5, and then verses 10 and 13. Just follow along and see if you |
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