This text was not given as an example of how to resolve conflicts in the church. The simple reason is that we are given little information about the content and the manner of what went on between Paul and Barnabas.
This text speaks to something that we desperately need to hear. We need a generation of believers through the Holy Spirit have the heart of a soldier in the spirit of a servant. We need to be people that have so surrendered ourselves for the purpose of God that we are willing to walk through any hardship to snatch people out of the devil's kingdom.
The Christian life is not sanctified retirement it is active warfare. We must so love the Lord Jesus Christ that we want to see Him exalted above anything else. The same time we must love people so that we will lay down our lives to see them delivered from an everlasting hell.
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Pastor Jim McLoughlin has been a follower of Jesus Christ for over 30 years. Jim is currently the interim Pastor at the Tottenville Evangelical Free Church in Staten Island New York. He also holds a full-time job as a computer consultant. Pastor McLoughlin and his wife Cheryl...