Sister Sharron Sunday School 10/20/13

Sister Sharron Sunday School 10/20/13

It is not good enough to know, and it is not good enough to intend; it is the action that brings victory.  I want to be an overcomer.  “To him that overcomes will I grant…” Revelations.

1Co 15:33  Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.

2Ti 2:15  Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

2Ti 2:16  But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.

We need to have a care, concern, and a love behind what we say.  Emily Post wrote the book on etiquette in the 1920’s.  There was nothing in there on cell phones.

Eph 4:32  And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.

We are living in a day and age where people’s hearts are hard.  We need to care.

Manners are our behavior when we are with other people.  When we are in a group, our manners are how we conduct our self.  God cannot judge us on another’s unkind or hateful behavior.  He judges us on our behavior.

God wants us to behave.  Communication is the process of using words, sounds, signs, or actions to present our view to someone else.

To have manners is to defer or give way to another to spare embarrassment, to be empathetic, to put yourself in another’s shoe, to be sympathetic. 

How can we attract others to God’s way if we don’t have good manners? 

Example: when you are eating at someone’s home how would you handle finding a hair in your food?  Pick up the napkin and discretely take the hair from the food and never say anything.  A hostess would never intentionally put a hair in the food. 

To have good manners is to make someone comfortable in their home and in your home.  It is to be comfortable and to make others comfortable.  Sometimes we need to go out of the box of our comfort zone to do this.

Cell phones have come out and what a wonderful thing they have been.  I like them in my business and in travel.  We don’t need them 24/7.  They got to be quite troublesome in our office; we all had phones and everyone that came in had phones.  To handle this, we have tones that are softer and are not so loud.  It has helped us a lot and I appreciate it.

Cell phone manners:  You be in control of your phone instead of it controlling you.  Be careful when you are walking while talking with the cell phone and in other places talking on the cell phone.  Sometimes it is not convenient and sometimes it is not good manners. 

Everything is not right at all times.  In our office sometimes we shut it off.  When we come to the house of God we need to leave our phone off or out in the car.  We need to learn as a people how to be. 

Sister Alice: When you are with a horse, you need to be present in the moment.  It is the same with people.  You cannot do this while on the cell phone. 

Speak softly when on the cell phone not louder. 

Brother Bill:  When salesmen come to speak to me, when their phone rings they don’t answer it because they are giving me their attention.  They don’t answer their phones unless it is an emergency.

Be courteous to those that you are visiting with: turn off the phone because it will interrupt your conversation.  It is important to not be interrupted. 

Avoid talking of personal things on the phone.  We are living among people and are not an island among ourselves. 

I leave my phone in the car a lot.  I have other things to do than answer the telephone.  If you are carrying your cell phone while you are visiting with me and it rings and you answer it then who is more important my visit or the phone? 

As saints we are to have a more excellent way.  Do not text during meetings etc.  It is important that you give the meeting and the classroom and the visit your full attention.  You are the one that is going to miss out if you don’t. 

Be careful when texting personal information.  It can be forwarded on. 

You need a ten foot distance between you and others if you are going to talk on the cell phone, and do not talk loud. 

If you are new to a home, then don’t sit down until they tell you to.  When someone else comes into the room and you are sitting, then you need to get up to visit with them so that you are not sitting and they standing.  You should stand as a man if an elder man or a lady comes into the room.  You should stand as a lady if an elder lady comes into the room.