Stop bickering

And a servant of the Lord must not quarrel but be gentle to all, able to teach, patient, in humility correcting those who are in opposition, if God perhaps will grant them repentance, so that they may know the truth, and that they may come to their senses and escape the snare of the devil, having been taken captive by him to do his will. – 2 Timothy 2.24-26

The servant of the Lord must not quarrel.

What, did I read that right? The servant of the Lord must not quarrel? Sometimes it seems that that is all we do! I myself have been involved far too many quarrels over the stupidest things.

We are looking in the next verse at perilous times and perilous men coming. If they are coming would we not do well to stop babbling and stop fighting and dealing with our sin and passing on what we have learned.

This isn’t a game to be taken lightly. It is a shame to see some many servants of the Lord today quarrelling of politics and masks and vaccines and shutdown and how much to obey the law and music this and that and that and this.

Quarrels over all these things distract us from the task at end. There is a world out there dying without Christ and we quarrel over wearing a mask. There is no place for this nonsense.

I watched a discussion on whether or not our church attire reflects our view of God. Foolish me could not keep my fingers off the keyboard then regretted my decision.  This petty stuff is the stuff that seems to cause the biggest fights. I’ve seen and sadly been involved in far too many of these.

This just isn’t right.  We don’t have time. There are bad guys out there. There is a world that needs Jesus.

Stop bickering.