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At RUF staff training in Atlanta recently, I thought of something about relationships with other Christians that might be helpful. It's about how we choose to see other Christians. One of the opportunities we have in relationships with other Christians is to visibly demonstrate to one another how the Gospel works. God accepts Christians as righteous in His sight, having covered them with Christ's righteousness. God accepts us and embraces us through Christ. We have the opportunity to reflect this kind of acceptance in our relationships. Let's say you're hanging out with me in a group of people, and let's say I'm talking too much and trying to get attention, and it annoys you. It's not wrong to be annoyed, and it may require your talking to me about it eventually, but what could you THINK about to help you love me better? How should you "see" me? It just occured to me recently that we can remind ourselves that the Christian in front of our face that's annoying us is RIGHTEOUS in God's sight and a dearly loved child of God. If I annoy you, you can choose to see me, in a sense, as God sees me: an adopted child of God who is covered in Christ's righteousness. God has imputed or credited Christ's righteousness to us, and we can, in a secondary way, impute that righteousness to one another, seeing other Christians as covered in Christ's righteousness. Here's what I think is beautiful about this. As you choose to see me as righteous because of Christ and accept me because of Christ it models God's acceptance to me. It might just help me believe the Gospel more deeply and rest in Christ more fully. I think this preaching the Gospel to one another by accepting each other BECAUSE OF CHRIST is one way that Christian fellowship can be a means of grace, a way to help us grow in the grace and knowledge of Jesus. What do you think?