Bible Dictionary: Ministers: should Avoid Giving Unnecessary Offense

◄ Ministers: should Avoid Giving Unnecessary Offense ►

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1 Corinthians 10:32,33
Give none offense, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God:
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2 Corinthians 6:3
Giving no offense in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed:
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Library

The Folly and Danger of Being not Righteous Enough
... and rose too if you please, but take care to avoid the appearance ... to see all the
world adhere to her articles; I should rejoice to see the ministers of the ...
/.../whitefield/selected sermons of george whitefield/the folly and danger of.htm

A Preservative against Unsettled Notions, and Want of Principles ...
... of the greatest difficulty to avoid being led ... him, and all those erring ministers,
who have ... And lest prevarication should fail, downright falsehoods must be ...
/.../a preservative against unsettled notions.htm

An Account of the Organization of the Methodist Episcopal Church ...
... when you look them in the face, you should break forth ... must needs do this, were it
only to avoid idleness ... Answer Let all the ministers and preachers join as one ...
/.../chapter 3 an account of.htm

The Abrogation of the Saybrook Platform
... In order to avoid a conflict over the matter, he refused ... be the feeling that some
legislative favor should be shown ... all ministers of the gospel that now are or ...
/.../chapter xi the abrogation of.htm

The General Conference of 1840
... have not been so happy as to avoid difficulty from ... or Scriptural to confound the
positions of our ministers and people ... if they might be free they should use it ...
/.../chapter 15 the general conference.htm

Homilies on Philippians, Colossians, and Thessalonians.
... a cold kind that comes of giving great feasts ... improve, [1597]370; works by unworthy
ministers, [1598]371 ... makes trouble seem nothing, [1662]382; should be talked ...
/.../homilies on philippians colossians and.htm

On Reconciling Religious Dissensions among Christians
... on them this blindness, by giving efficacy to ... between whom the difference subsists,
should be mutually ... for due meditation: and, to avoid many inconveniences ...
/.../the works of james arminius vol 1/oration v on reconciling religious.htm

From 1787 to 1791 Inclusive
... Mr. Lee, however, endeavored to avoid, as much as ... prudence for the general harmony
of ministers and people ... for in a General Conference, which should meet once ...
/.../a history of the methodist episcopal church volume i/chapter 2 from 1787 to.htm

Chapter xlix
... perhaps lacking swords and also to avoid suspicion, may ... But in their dispersion these
ministers of the ... a tendency towards treachery and should guard against it ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/leupold/exposition of genesis volume 1/chapter xlix.htm

From the Close of the General Conference of 1820 to the Beginning ...
... he would have ranked among the first ministers in the ... expressing his regret that
any difficulties should have arisen ... will be such as to avoid the possibility ...
/.../chapter 6 from the close.htm