The body of Christ can’t be all that it should be unless we mature in our interpersonal relationships as the Bible commands. Building Up One Another has been helping believers do just that since 1976, when Gene Getz first published what has since become a best-selling classic. This book, the cornerstone of the well-known “One Another Series,” has now been thoroughly updated and rewritten, drawing upon Dr. Getz’s church planting and “building up” experience. It also includes a personal and group study. Explore with Dr. Getz twelve significant “one another” commands of the New Testament, and follow the practical steps for developing them in your own life and in the life of your church. It’s a long-term building process, but one that pleases God and reaps rewards not just in this lifetime but in the next.

“Nobody reaches out to me when I go to church.” “This church really isn’t much of a family.” Have you heard these kinds of comments? How sad if they are true, especially as God’s Word has so much to say about how believers should interact with one another! An array of interpersonal problems between spouses, children, parents, siblings, friends, coworkers can easily develop, but if you are a Christian, you can put the Bible’s message into practice and see how radically it transforms your relationships with others. By carefully examining the “one another” commands in Scripture, the authors provide a Word-based understanding of what God intends for Christian relationships—showing not only what they look like, but also how to develop them. Enjoy reading and sharing this book; it’s very well suited for individuals, couples, and small groups.

"Loving One Another" focuses on an important New Testament principle: God's plan is that local bodies of believers, functioning as loving and caring units, provide a dynamic community in which both personal witnessing and evangelistic preaching can become intensely productive. This new, updated edition of the 1979 classic includes a personal and group study guide.

“Let us draw near to God” (Hebrews 10:19). There is no separation from God, apart from our own sin, which causes us to move away. Baptism in the Spirit has washed and purified us to stand in his presence. Draw near each day by daily inviting the Holy Spirit to open our hearts and minds. Norman Lawson was a United Methodist pastor who served from 1956 to 2012. While cleaning her parents’ storage unit ten years ago, his daughter, Dr. Kathleen Polo, unearthed a box filled with more than fifty years of his sermons, rich with spiritual insight that paralleled the current events of several decades in American history. After pulling thirty meditations from the sermons and presenting them to her father on his eightieth birthday, Kathleen eventually decided to create a compilation of these inspirational writings for every day of the year. Within a daily devotional inspired by the work of the Holy Spirit, Kathleen shares insight into faith, current world struggles, and biblical truths intended to enrich the faith journey and stimulate the mind. Throughout the writings, Kathleen offers encouragement to believers to be bearers of Christ’s light, to show love for others while following the path of Jesus, to let God’s truth find us, and much more. Children, Love One Another is a collection of daily devotionals that invites spiritual seekers to open their souls to a heartfelt interpretation of God’s love.

This book considers the excelling gift for the building up of the church. This matter is spoken of by Paul in 1 Corinthians 14.

While church discipline is never easy, it is sometimes a necessary, albeit painful, part of the Christian life. This helpful study guide tackles the difficult topic in six chapters designed to focus discussion on the interpretation and application of biblical texts. Groups will work through questions as they discover the role of church discipline, seeing and practicing it in a gracious and loving way. A series of ten 6–7 week studies covering the nine distinctives of a healthy church as originally laid out in Nine Marks of a Healthy Church by Mark Dever. This series explores the biblical foundations of key aspects of the church, helping Christians to live out those realities as members of a local body. Conveniently packaged and accessibly written, the format of this series is guided, inductive discussion of Scripture passages and is ideal for use in Sunday school, church-wide studies, or small group contexts.

With 1,500 churches and denominations in the United States, the church is fragmented. Jesus calls us to be one, even as He and God are one. This is a great challenge, because we now go our separate ways in a peaceful coexistence. We can unify, not on all of the details that define each church or denomination, but on the simple commands Jesus gave us. Even the Jews had four sects at the time of Jesus, but they were all Jews and at least agreed on the Torah. If we can agree on a few commandments, we will have taken one giant step toward enjoying unity, even as Jesus enjoyed being one with the Father.

The New Testament tells us that as saved ones we have been regenerated in our spirit and that from the time we were saved, God has been edifying and building up our spirit. Ephesians 2:22 clearly reveals that our spirit is God's dwelling place in us. Hence, to build up our spirit, the individual spirit, is to build up God's dwelling place, God's temple. On the other hand, the church is also God's house and God's temple. But how do we build up the church? It is through all the saved ones encouraging one another and functioning in mutuality according to their fellowship with the Lord and the experiences of life they have had with the Lord in their spirit. The Body of Christ is built up through the spiritual development of all the members.