As those who have been rescued from judgment and assured of our eternal inheritance, we should treat outsiders with compassion, not malice.

Being a child of God means walking in this world with sacrificial love, the way the Son of God did while he was on earth.

The end of the Christian life is a heavenly inheritance and the road to that goal is one of purification through trials.

When the Lord makes you his own, you become and exile in this world.