Culture of honor

Honor one another above yourselves. (Rom. 12:10b)

I believe that one of the greatest ways to demonstrate the kingdom of God is through honoring and loving one another. I am speaking about those that are saved. If our love for our brothers and sisters is pure, real, authentic, sacrificial, vulnerable, transparent, and vibrant...then our message will be seen as real, pure, authentic and vibrant to the world around us. There is a direct cause and effect. Jesus said in John 17 that we would be brought to complete unity so the world would know that God sent Jesus.

A culture of love and honor is what God is after in every church, city, and nation. Believers that understand the importance of radical commitment to walking out true love and honor. We are called to help bring freedom to the captives. We are called to be a light in the darkness. We are called to love one another without hypocrisy, sincerely, in the truest sense of the word. A challenge indeed we face today with so many so called Christians slandering one another, in complete disunity and discord. Can you really be considered a child of God in this manner? According to 1 John 4, I would say no. "Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love, does not know God". This is black and white.

Let's create a culture of love and honor in the way we treat one another. Let us set a standard so high that even the ones who would mock you most, would not be able to mock your genuine love and honor of one another. It is the thing that everyone longs for anyways, to be loved and known in the deepest way. Church as we know it, or have known it will change. It will not survive the coming storms and difficulties unless we change and become true sons and daughters of God.