According To God’S Receiving
ACCORDING TO GOD'S RECEIVING
We must receive the saints according to God's receiving of them. Whomever God has received, we are compelled to receive. We have no choice. Consider a family with many children. Some of the children are good and others bad; some are sweet and the others naughty. Perhaps in such a large family some of the children may not be happy with all of their brothers and sisters. How ever, the children must realize that it does not rest with them to determine who their brothers and sisters will be. That depends upon the par ents. Our heavenly Father has brought forth many children, many Christians, and He has received them all. Therefore, we also must receive them, not according to our tastes or preferences, but according to God's receiving.
However, most of the receiving of the be lievers in Christianity is not according to God's receiving, but according to doctrinal concepts. Consider the example of baptism. There are many different concepts about baptism. Some people insist on sprinkling, some on immersion, others argue about the name in which we baptize peo ple, and still others argue against physical bap tism, claiming that baptism is purely spiritual.