We had a wedding earlier today and a fellowship meeting in the evening.  Only I was able to attend the fellowship, so our family church time didn’t happen until our car ride home.

Main points from the fellowship meeting was:

Whenever problems arise, they are the tip of the iceberg… there are underlying things that are not as clearly seen.  The level directly below the problems are how we deal with problems and some of this requires skill.  It includes communication, conflict resolution,  etc.  But if we only focus on this level we begin to manipulate others.  This type of manipulation is bad…

The underlying level to all problems is worship…  We are either worshipping God or something else.  It’s when we worship something else that brings us conflicts.  This stems within marriage or other relationships.  

We looked at a few passages: Romans 8:28ff, Matthew 7:1-5

“Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.”Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.

It is within this self-examination that helps us to be compassionate to others. Only Christ can remove the log from our eye and when we realize that, it requires Christ to remove the speck from our brother’s eye.

So the question was what were some logs in our eye? Even though my wife wasn’t there tonight, we did have brief time of worship in the car ride home.

We sang Amazing Grace again and went over the fellowship points as well as asked each other about the logs in our eyes.