The One Anothers | Pastor Mary Armstrong | August 16th, 2026
Learning to Bear and Share One Another’s Burdens
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Brother and sisters, if someone is caught in a sin, you who live by the Spirit should restore that person gently. But watch yourselves, or you also may be tempted. Carry each other’s burdens and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ. If anyone thinks they are something when they are not, they deceive themselves. Each one should test their own actions, Then they can take pride in themselves alone, without comparing themselves to someone else, for each one should carry their own load.
Galatians 6:1-5
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What does it look like to bear and share one another’s burdens?
1. We RESTORE
2. We CARRY
3. We OWN
4. We EXAMINE
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The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.
Galatians 5:22
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The power of the Spirit is being manifested whenever Jesus is becoming visible through us.
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We RESTORE: When someone falls, respond gently.
If someone is caught [trapped] in a sin, you who live by the Spirit should restore that person gently.
Galatians 6:1
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For all of have sinned and come short of the glory [doxa] of God.
Doxa: to give others a correct opinion or estimate of God’s character.
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The order is to restore us to our original design: created in the Imago Dei [image of God]. We are designed to bring Him glory [doxa]. Bringing him glory [doxa] is to live so that we give others a correct opinion or estimate of God’s true character.
Romans 3:23
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They crush people with unbearable religious demands and never lift a finger to ease the burden.
Matthew 23:4
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It seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us not to burden you with anything beyond the following requirements: You are to abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from sexual immorality. You will do well to avoid these things.
Acts 15:6-8
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Neither do I condemn you. Go now and leave your life of sin.
John 8:11
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But watch yourselves, or you also may be tempted.
Galatians 6:1
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We CARRY: We help with what is too heavy for others to carry alone.
Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way, YOU WILL FULFILL the law of Christ.
Galatians 6:2
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Confess your sins [your brokenness, your generational weight] to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed.
James 5:16
Confession + Bearing and Sharing = Healing
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Four steps to bearing and sharing one another’s burdens
1. We NOTICE the weight
2. We LISTEN
3. We MOVE TOWARD the weight
4. We PRAY and remain PRESENT
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A burden is something that has become too heavy for me to carry alone.
But my load is what God has entrusted to me.
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3. We OWN: We take responsibility for what belongs to us.
Each one should carry their own load.
Galatians 6:5
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We EXAMINE: We keep the mirror turned toward ourselves.
Each one should test their own actions.
Galatians 6:4
What belongs to me in this situation?
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Jesus tells His followers: “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.”
John 13:34
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Bearing and Sharing One Another’s is Evident When …
We RESTORE without condemning.
We CARRY without rescuing.
We OWN what God has entrusted to us.
And we EXAMINE ourselves instead of constantly evaluating everyone else.
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Worship Set List:
Praise The Lord (Everything Within Me)
The Blood
Living Hope
Hope On The Horizon