1 Thessalonians 5:11  “Therefore comfort each other and edify one another, just as you also are doing." 

Hebrews 10:24-25 “And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.”

James 5:16  “Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another , that you may be healed.”

5.  Love one another.

John 13:35  "By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.” 

Romans 12:10  “Be kindly affectionate to one another with brotherly love , in honor giving preference to one another.”

1 Corinthians 16:14  “Let all that you do be done with love.” 

Ephesians 4:2  "with all lowliness and gentleness, with longsuffering, bearing with one another in love.”

Ephesians 4:16  “the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies,  according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love."

           We sense that we are living in the last days when, as Paul warned to Timothy, “they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables.” (2 Timothy 4:1-5).  Human corruption even in our most respected institutions should not surprise us.  Earthly churches will rise and fall, bringing discouragement and disillusionment to many, while those that remain are often as Tozer wrote: “Right now . . . the simplicity which is in Christ is rarely found among us. In its stead are programs, methods, organizations and a world of nervous activities which occupy time and attention but can never satisfy the longing of the heart. The shallowness of our inner experience, the hollowness of our worship, and the servile imitation of the world which marks our promotional methods all testify that we, in this day, know God only imperfectly, and the peace of God scarcely at all.” 

            These are problems that no method, program or corporate plan can remedy; rather, they simply reflect the condition of individual hearts within each assembly, to which Paul addresses these words:

“And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in knowledge and all discernment, that you may approve the things that are excellent , that you may be sincere and without offense till the day of Christ,  being filled with the fruits of righteousness which are by Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.” 

Philippians 1:9-11