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Lay Minister Ray Swanson "Compassion" 1 Peter 3:8

• We need to show compassion and understanding to our brothers and sisters.
• We need to be of one mind, that's mindset should be that we are in church to serve and worship God.
• Satan seeks to get us quarreling with one another, so that we get our mind focus off of the things God wants us on.
• Our Christian conduct should show love and compassion.
• None of us are above slipping and falling.
• If we're not all that God requires of us, we're not doing what God desires. 
• If we don't address those things when they begin to arise then they will begin to fester.
• Someone doing something bad to us, we shouldn't do it back to them. We should have a heart of forgiveness, that heart only comes from God. 
• We are nothing but sinners saved by grace, we're not any better than anyone else.
• When we see a need, we should help.
• We need to have a love one for another. 
• We should be willing to go up to our brothers and sisters and put an arm around them and show them love.
• We are to treat others the way that Christ would treat them.
• We didn't deserve Christ's mercy and grace; however, out of love he gave us both and brought us into the family of God.
• We can't allow Satan to cause a rift. 
• We are called to show love. 
• God wants to use us.