The Two People Living Inside A Narcissist

When you encounter family, community, or church and they are so fully convinced of their opinions which are different from ours but are not addressed in Scripture, and they will judge you as foolish for not thinking the way they do, you have encountered a cult or a clique that is lacking in love toward their brother or sister in Christ. 

When we love our brothers and sisters we allow them to have opinions differing from ours and love them even respect that they have their own right to their opinions. But even better is if we listen well enough to perhaps learn from them then we can build a relationship. 

Arrogance and lack of acceptance of others prevent or destroy relationships. I have known Christians in my life who had quirky thinking about things that were not mentioned in the Bible but differed from my thinking, I remember appreciating them and loving them even while they did not view things as I viewed them. May we learn to enjoy those who are different from ourselves without prejudice.

Sadly I encounter more lack of love, trust and appreciation toward one another in the body of Christ than I do authentically humble, kind, and accepting people whose focus is completely on Christ. I thank the Lord for my Facebook family who understands these principles of God's love, we are learning from one another because of it. Praise God He has brought to my life those who love Christ more than they love themselves and their own opinions.