If You Are Going To Lead Others To God ... Make Sure You Are Taking Them Down The Avenue Of Love ...

You haven't always been where you are.   You haven't always been saved.  Walking in the right way.  Doing the right thing.   So understand ... everybody is not there yet.    You shouldn't be getting angry with your family, your friends, and those around you because they don't see what you see.   That's why God saved you.   He saved you to help "lead" them.    To lead means to help someone to move forward.    We have to get to a place of understanding that condemnation only makes a person back away.   In essence pushing them backwards.   

God wants us to lead with love.    We have to remember what I Corinthians says about love.   It is not rude and it does not insist on it's own rights or own way.    Learn how to lead with love.   

1 Corinthians 13:4-7

Amplified Bible (AMP)

⁴ Love endures long and is patient and kind; love never is envious nor boils over with jealousy, is not boastful or vainglorious, does not display itself haughtily.

⁵ It is not conceited (arrogant and inflated with pride); it is not rude (unmannerly) and does not act unbecomingly. Love (God’s love in us) does not insist on its own rights or its own way, for it is not self-seeking; it is not touchy or fretful or resentful; it takes no account of the evil done to it [it pays no attention to a suffered wrong].

⁶ It does not rejoice at injustice and unrighteousness, but rejoices when right and truth prevail.

⁷ Love bears up under anything and everything that comes, is ever ready to believe the best of every person, its hopes are fadeless under all circumstances, and it endures everything [without weakening].

 

 

Take time to remember where you are and where God brought you to.    Remember that you also had to be led out through the avenue of love.   Don't try to lead others through a shortcut.   Love is the required path.  

 

 

Ephesians 2:2

Amplified Bible (AMP)

² In which at one time you walked [habitually]. You were following the course and fashion of this world [were under the sway of the tendency of this present age], following the prince of the power of the air. [You were obedient to and under the control of] the [demon] spirit that still constantly works in the sons of disobedience [the careless, the rebellious, and the unbelieving, who go against the purposes of God].