Instead of complaining we have to be patient with each other

(Audio: Spanish)

SUMMARY: Patience with each other is important in church and all social relationships. We must forgive, tolerate, and guide each other with love and meekness, especially when someone falls or has spiritual struggles. Pastors and teachers must also be patient with their congregations. Without patience, there can be no harmony in a community. James emphasizes the need for patience in both waiting for the Second Coming and restoring each other. We must take a long-term view of our sanctification process and exercise patience with ourselves and others.

The test should produce patience with the rest. The apostle James implies that we do not have to complain to each other, but try to patiently restore each other.

I believe that in the congregations that patience of the brothers with one another is needed. For there to be harmony in a church it is so important that we forgive each other, that we suffer grievances, that we take a long-term view of those troublesome people who need someone to guide them, to tolerate them, to be patient with them when They do things that are offensive to other brothers, that we have patience for those who come to faith with a number of erroneous ideas and character defects and that we receive them little by little so that they can get to where they have to go.