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Jun 21, 2015

Tactfully Reforming Through Love

Passage: Philemon 1:8

Preacher: Pastor Tim W. Young

Series: The Overlooked Letters

Category: Philemon

Summary:

Main Text - Philemon 1:8-25; OT Reading - Jeremiah 34:8-16; NT Reading - Philemon 1:8-25

Detail:

The Overlooked Letters - Philemon

“Tactfully Reforming Though Love”

Philemon 1:8-25

 

A Lesson in Christian Tactfulness

 

               Paul is tactful

 

                              2 Timothy 2:24-25

 

               Why –

              

 

               How?

                             

                             

               Isn’t this manipulation:

 

                             

 

 

A Warning Against “Christian Revolution”

 

               What is Paul appealing for?                   Does the Bible condone slavery?                   Paul is a Reformer and not a Revolutionary

 

                             

 

A Call to Christian Love

 

               Love for Who

 

                              Love for…

 

                              Love for who…

 

                              Love for the…

 

               What is the Motive - Philemon 1, 4, 7, 16    

 

               Too bad we don’t have the rest of the story… or do we?