Tell City Nazarene Church's Biblical Journey
With Pastor Charles Areson
Today's reading is 1 Corinthians 16 and 2 Corinthians 1-3
"Greet one another with a holy kiss" (1 Cor 16:20b). I think the key word here is holy not kiss. In some cultures it is perfectly acceptable to give a kiss as a greeting, I wasn't brought up in those cultures and I'm very uncomfortable with it. Regardless, I don't believe this is causing me to point out that the emphasis here is on holy greetings not on the method.
In our greetings to one another ought to be holy be they a kiss, a handshake, or a polite nod. If we are greeting people for any other reason perhaps we shouldn't. This may confuse some of you, but consider the person who introduces themselves to someone just to get some personal recognition or as a means to manipulate (it happens) isn't a holy greeting. This type of greeting is self-serving and not the holy greetings which should take place in the church.
To put it another way, our dealings with other people should be holy, from the greetings to the end.
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