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1.      Determine your worth: Change focus on limitation of you to your strength and potentials. The fact is that everyone has weakness and strengths. Despite of your weakness, your strengths enable you to achieve something in your life. Foster and focus on those strengths rather than weakness. When you more focus on your strength, then which will be more evident to others. Remind yourself with your success rather than your failures. Instead of carried away with your weaknesses and negative things, find out the things that are good about you. Stop your inner negative self talk. 2.      Jesus said treat others as you expect them to treat by others. 3.      Overcoming your weakness. Working on your weakness is important. We need to eliminate the negativity in us. Perfectionism through human strength is an impossible pursuit. However, grace is sufficient. Jesus understands our weakness and enables us to overcome it. We can take victory over all our weakness through the power of Hol

      ATTITUDE TOWARDS THE CHURCH GATHERING              Church has different gatherings which aim to strengthen and nourish the spiritual life of believers. Heb 10.25 says that we should not give up any church meetings. It is an opportunity to us to receive ministry of God towards our entire being through the gifts of Holy Spirit (1Pet 4.10). Holy Spirit has very major role in our meetings. Spirit ministers to us through different gifts and manifestation through different people. Christian gathering should be Spirit filled gathering. The different manifestation of the Holy Spirit is to strengthen the believers and also for the common goodness of the community (1Cor 12.26,7).  However, the different ministries of the Holy Spirit should administer in order which should not disturb the order of the service.             One of the important parts of our gathering is giving to God from our material resources. It a most neglected part of the worship by many Christians and

                               The church is the community of all true believers of all time, whom God called out from the world to participate his salvific programme. Church is body of Christ and Christ is the head (Eph 1.22–23). Lord added to their number day by day those who were being saved (Acts 2.47). The church is local but universal. The metaphors that used for the church are: family (1Tim 5.1-2), bride of Christ (Eph 5.32), branches on a vine (Jn15.5), an live tree (Rom 11.17-24), field of crops (1Cor 3.6-9), a building (1Cor 3.9), a new temple (1Pt 2.5), God’s house (Hb 3.3). The main ministers of the church are: apostles, pastors, evangelists, teachers, prophets, deacons, other ministers. The important events of the church are: Baptism, holy communion, worship, prayer, fellowship, ministry of word of God, evangelism and so on. Following are the essential attitudes which every believer needs to have in his or her spiritual life towards the church. 1. ATTITUDE OF UN

"Attitude" means "an internal position or feeling with regard to something else." (Merriam Webster dictionary). Synonyms are: "disposition, feeling, mood, opinion, sentiment, temper, tone, perspective, frame of mind, outlook, view, or morale." Attitude is a feeling, belief, or opinion of approval or disapproval towards something. The three components of the attitude are cognitive (belief, convictions and thought), affective (feelings and evolutions) and behavioral (ways of acting/reacting). In order to understand the importance of our attitude, let me quote John Maxwell from his book Your Road Map for Success :   “ when our attitudes outdistance our abilities even the impossible becomes possible.” “Your attitude determines your altitude.” Your attitude is your choice and so you are responsible for your attitude. WHAT DOES THE BIBLE SPEAK ABOUT ATTITUDE? Phl 2:5: Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus (NIV). Ephesians 4:22-24: