Spartanburg 1st Church of the Nazarene

What does the family of God look like?

New Family
-to love
-to understand
-to work with
-to tolerate
-to be tolerated by
-to embrace

Tychicus...beloved brother...faithful minister...fellow servant

Onesimus... faithful & beloved brother... one of you...

Aristarchus... fellow prisoner...

Marcus... Barnabas’ nephew... receive him

Jesus Justus... Jew...fellow worker...a comfort in my inprisonment

Epaphras... one of you... servant of Christ... fervent laborer in prayers for you... zealous evangelist’s heart

Luke... physician... believer... writer of the gospel... faces danger for the gospel

Demas (2 Timothy 4:10) would later forsake Paul & the Way for the love of the world

Nymphas... leader of a house church... brother in nearby Laodicea

Other believers near and far... learn from them... share your knowledge with them

Archippus... minister... take heed to fulfill your ministry from the Lord

Since we are all brothers and sisters IN Christ Jesus, how should our vision of others be adjusted?
Who do you most identify with?
Who might you see differently?

How do you need to alter the way you live in light of this passage and its reminder of what it means to live in the Body of Christ?