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Honey From The Rock
Psalm 81:16

"Sweet Stuff From God's Word"

A daily Bible study with Victor Knowles
Copyright 2007

THE "BYKOTA" CHURCH

This entry was posted on 06-13-2008 and is filed under uncategorized.

Some years ago there was a church in the town where I was ministering that called themselves the BYKOTA Church. I had no idea what kind of a church they were. One day I asked someone what BYKOTA stood for and they told me the church had named themselves after a passage in Ephesians 4:32 in the King James Version: "Be ye kind one to another." Bingo! BYKOTA!

Every church should be a BYKOTA church in this regard. The solution to all church problems, hassles, fusses, fights, and even splits is found in Ephesians 4:32. "And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you" (NKJV). When we are kind to one another there will be no cutting remarks or curt behavior. When we are tenderhearted in our words and actions, there will be no hurt feelings. Most of all, when we can forgive one another of sins committed against us - real, minor or imagined - just as God in Christ forgave us ("readily and freely" - Amplified; "as quickly and thoroughly" - The Message), the church will be one as Jesus prayed it would be. You don't have to have the word BYKOTA on your church sign to be a church that is kind to one another. But you should have the thought in your heart and mind. Kindness, compassion, sensitivity, and mutual forgiveness will make us the kind of people that God can bless.

Hymn: "Blest be the tie that binds our hearts in Christian love; The fellowship of kindred minds is like to that above" (John Fawcett).