Understanding Work

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Effective Body Building (1 Thessalonians
511-15)

• 11 Therefore encourage one another and build one
  another up, just as you are doing. 12 We ask you,
  brothers, to respect those who labor among you
  and are over you in the Lord and admonish you,
  13 and to esteem them very highly in love because
  of their work. Be at peace among yourselves.
  14 And we urge you, brothers, admonish the idle,
  encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be
  patient with them all. 15 See that no one repays
  anyone evil for evil, but always seek to do good
  to one another and to everyone.

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Encouragement

• Biblical encouragement offers Gods truth and
  grace in ways that help others to more fully
  follow Gods will for their lives.
• Features of biblical encouragement
• Encouraging the fainthearted (those whose souls
  have become small)
• Offer Vision
• Praise Progress
• Help the weak (those overcome with pain)

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Other suggestions for effective encouragement

• Listen before speaking
• Know use Gods word (wisely)
• Prayerfully practice!

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Admonishment

• Why is admonishment so unpopular?
• Radical individualism
• Moral relativism
• Features of biblical admonishment
• admonish the idle/unruly
• Stimulate the lazy
• Correct the unruly

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Other suggestions for giving effective admonition

• Count the cost
• Specifically clarify which issue(s) need priority
  attention
• Offer Scripture
• Offer ideas for how to change
• Allow space for the admonished to ponder
• Meet face to face if at all possible!

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Suggestions for receiving admonition

• Ground self in Gods grace, not legalistic
  perfectionism
• Listen for the truth
• Thank, rather than target, your admonisher
• Read Proverbs!

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How do you need to respond today?