The Steve Harvey morning show plays pranks on people in the morning with nephew Tommy portraying a fictitious person. Some of these are Church members. When they are prank or lied to, it brings out the worst in them. They find out later it was a joke. As much as we laugh and joke about it, it is not of God, and He does not like it. This applies to social media and any other means a person uses to sin against God.
Proverbs 26:18-19 Just as damaging as a madman shooting a deadly weapon 19is someone who lies to a friend and then says, “I was only joking.”
He that sins in prank, must repent in serious, or his sin will be his ruin.
Mark 9:.42 But if you cause one of these little ones who trusts in me to fall into sin, it would be better for you to be thrown into the sea with a large millstone hung around your neck.
This caution against harming little ones in the faith applies to our individual actions as teachers. It also applies to the examples we set and what we allow to fester in our Christian fellowship. Our thoughts and actions must be motivated by love (1 Corinthians 13). We must be careful about judging others (Matthew 7:1-5; Romans 14:1-15:4). Nevertheless, we also have a responsibility to confront flagrant sin within the church (1 Corinthians 5:12-13).
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