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One of the things that can help very different spouses the most (in conflict resolution) is growth in God's Word. The more we have God's Word in common as husbands and wives, the more we will agree. The more each mind is renewed (changed) by the Scripture, the more similarly a couple will think (Romans 12:2). One of the worst things a couple can do is work to change one another into each other's likeness. They are to be changed, rather, into Christ's likeness. The more a couple works at love and becoming one, the more differences will be accepted and blended to enhance the marriage.
Stuart Scott

Kent and Barbara Hughes suggest the following to built family affection: 1. “The best possible foundation for building affection: love for God…We are able to love God and others through the reception of God’s love. Loving God is what makes other loves endure. This discipline, the day-to-day empowerment to live out this love for people who aren’t always “lovable,” is what fosters the ongoing growth of affection.” 2. “It is essential, then, if a family is to develop the bonds of affection, that the children have the assurance of their parents’ love for one another.” 3. “An obvious place to enhance family affection is at the dinner table. That is the single best daily opportunity families have for all gathering together…We encourage you never to surrender that choice time, for it is an unsurpassed opportunity to build family life.” 4. “Family vacations were at the heart of building the Hughes clan’s affections…we made disciplined investment in family vacations…Sometimes brief, spontaneous mini-vacations can (also) have important results in developing family unity and affection.” 5. “Mutual interests builds affection…Wise parents know this and look for a common interest or adopt their children’s interests as their own.” 6. “Families that learn to appreciate their points of uniqueness and to chuckle at their idiosyncrasies pull together in affection rather than apart in irritation.” 7. “The home is the place to be sentimental, corny, even weird for the sake of affection.” 8. “Wise parents who wish to enhance familial bonds will do their best to keep up the communication with grandparents and spent time with them if possible. Few things can be more elevating to family than loving affection extended across generations.” (Kent and Barbara Hughes).
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    • Gems Of A W Tozer Testing D

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    Gems Of A W Tozer Testing D

    ====[ The Christian BBS – Vic., B.C. – 604-478-2789, 3/12/24 Baud ]====

    This is a excerpt from Tozer’s book “Gems From Tozer” and it is quite different than what you would read from the writings of those false prophets that have arisen and bealch out their heresies of the Blab it and Grab teachings, aka Believe it and Receive it, aka Confess it and Possess it. The false teachers preach that you are wonderful and great and you should have no negative feelings about yourselve etc.

    …Dave

    GEMS FROM TOZER

    For those who want a rule by which they can test everything, I make available here a little secret by which I have tested my own spiritual experiences and religious impulses for many years.

    Briefly stated the test is this: This new doctrine, this new religious spiritual experience – how has it affected my attitude toward and my relation to God, Christ, the Holy Scripture, self, other Christians, the world and sin. By this seven-fold test we may prove everything religious.

    3. Another revealing test is, How does it affect my attitude toward the Holy Scripture? Did this new experience, this new niew of truth, spring out of the Word of God itself? Whatever originates outside the scripture should for that very reason be suspect until it can be shown to be in accord with them. However high the emotional content, no experience can be proved to be genuine unless we can find chapter and verse authority for it in the Scripture. (Isa.8:20)

    Whatever is new or singular should also be viewed with a lot of caution. Over the last half-century quite a number of unscriptural notions have gained acceptance among Christians by claiming that they were among the truths that were to be revealed in the last days. The truth is that the Bible does not teach that there will be new light and advanced spiritual experiences in the latter days; it teaches the exact opposite. Beware of any man who claims to ve wiser than the apostles or holier than the martyrs of the Early Church.

    4. Again, we can prove the quality of religious experience by its effect on self-life. The Holy Spirit and the fallen human self are diametrically opposed to each other. (Gal.5:17) Before the Spirit of God can work creatively in our hearts He must have our full consent to displace our natural self with the Person of Christ. This displacement is carefully explained in Romans 6, 7, and 8.

    A good rule is this: If this experience has served to humble me and make me little and vile in my own eyes, it is of God, but if it has given me a feeling of self-satisfaction it is false and should be dismissed as emanating from self or the devil. Nothing that comes from God will minister to my pride or self-congratulation.

    • Taken from the Media Spotlight Publication

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