What Does Honor Look Like in Your Church Neighborhood?

Honor is a phrase we don’t use all that always, particularly after we consider our church relationships. However in our tradition of self-promotion, Christians are referred to as to show humility and method worshipping God and interacting with our church communities from a posture of affection and honor. The brand-new e book Honor: Loving Your Church by Constructing One One other Up will problem your serious about this subject and compel you to take critically Jesus’ directions to place others above your self.

Honor unpacks what it means to honor God rightly, honor each other selflessly, and honor our leaders—even once they aren’t excellent or we don’t agree with them. The e book explores the distinctive traits that mark a God-honoring church and, specifically, how humility is foundational in order that members don’t see themselves as an important individuals within the room however slightly submit to 1 one other in love.

In his foreword for the e book, Alistair writes, “Scripture requires church members to be able to honor others—for us all to look extra rapidly to the pursuits and encouragement of these in our church than ourselves and to be able to humbly undergo these the Lord has referred to as to shepherd the native flock we’re part of.”

This temporary however convicting e book will invite you to think about what it’d appear like if each time you walked into church, your first thought was not “What am I going to get out of this?” however as an alternative “Isn’t it wonderful that God prolonged His grace to somebody like me?” Honor can even show you how to see what it means for a congregation to honor God by making His glory and authority the orbital middle of their worship, instructing, theology, group, and mission.

Honor is a e book that Alistair says he discovered “clarifying, stimulating, encouraging, and difficult.”