Season 1, Episode 17: Loving On Your Brothers and Sisters
Season 1, Episode 17: Loving On Our Brothers and Sisters
Loving On Your Brothers and Sisters was born from Britt texting this essay to our group chat and us collectively weeping at how beautiful and honest and encouraging it was. Join Maddy, Rach, Britt and Bec as we debrief and process the practicalities of loving our as brothers and sisters in the church.
In today’s episode, we discuss:
🎧 What it means to be brothers and sisters in Christ
🎧 Where we’ve seen this done well in our own lives
🎧 What we are working on to embrace the idea of church being family
🎧 The barriers we’ve grappled with as we try to love others (see: messy homes, fears of being a bad homemaker, busyness, not wanting to burden others, and not knowing where to start).
You can listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, or anywhere you get podcasts.
Mentioned on today’s show
Brotherly Love by Katie Blackburn
Reaching Your Muslim Neighbour with the Gospel by A.S. Ibrahim
Bec’s review of Reaching Your Muslim Neighbour with the Gospel on The Gospel Coalition Australia (TGCA)
Jesus Through The Eyes of Women: How the First Female Disciples Help Us Know and Love the Lord by Rebecca McLaughlin
“Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.” C.S. Lewis
Bible verses
“In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.”
1 John 4:10-11 ESV
“Abstain from all appearance of evil.” 1 Thessalonians 5:22 (KJV) - interestingly this is “Abstain from every form of evil,” in the ESV and “reject every kind of evil,” in the NIV.
Some of the “One Anothers”
“Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.”
Romans 12:10 ESV
“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.”
John 13:34 ESV
“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.”
John 15:12 ESV
“By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.””
John 13:35 ESV
“Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind.”
1 Peter 3:8 ESV
“I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.”
Ephesians 4:1-3 ESV
“Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.”
Ephesians 4:32 ESV
“Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.”
Colossians 3:12-14 ESV
“Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.”
1 Thessalonians 5:11 ESV
“Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.”
Galatians 5:26 ESV