Relacionamentos
Os relacionamentos são centrais na vida cristã. A Bíblia orienta sobre amizade, casamento, família e convivência, sempre tendo o amor como fundamento de toda relação.
Amor e amizade
O amigo ama em todo tempo. A Bíblia valoriza amizades verdadeiras que edificam, fortalecem e desafiam ao crescimento mútuo.
Casamento e família
O casamento é aliança sagrada. O marido deve amar a esposa como Cristo amou a Igreja, e ambos devem cultivar respeito e submissão mútua.
About husbands
Husbands, love your own wives just as Christ also loved the Church and gave Himself up on her behalf, in order that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of the water: in a word,
Just so the husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself.
In any case, each of you individually: let each one love his own wife as himself, while the wife must respect her husband.
About wives
Wives, subordinate yourselves to your own husbands, as to the Lord, because a man is head of his wife as also Christ is Head of the Church—He also is Preserver of the body.
But because of the fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
Convivência saudável
Os relacionamentos florescem quando tratamos os outros como gostaríamos de ser tratados, com amor crescente e caráter maduro.
So then, whatever you want people to do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.
‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ "
Separation is a ‘must’
Do not enter a mismatch with unbelievers; for what do righteousness and lawlessness have in common? And what fellowship does light have with darkness?
Am I just now appealing to men, or to God? Or am I trying to please men? You see, if I were still pleasing men I would not be a slave of Christ.