Throughout the New Testament, believers are given instructions on how to treat one another. Love one another. Honor one another. Serve one another. Pray for one another. In our flesh, we’re prone to do these things when we’re extended love, honor, and service. But scripture is clear: “As you wish that others would do to you, do so to them.” Luke 6:31

It’s here that we reflect the heart of our Savior.

This year, we’re prayerfully considering this call to love as Christ does —to show His character in how we speak and extend grace in all our dealings and interactions.

Each month, we’ll highlight a “one another” of Scripture by providing an encouraging and practical article for your edification. We will also provide Bible verses that you can pray back to the Lord.

As we embark on this journey together, we ask that God use His Word to shape and refine our hearts, making them more like His. May we be a radiant reflection of Him as we extend love and grace to others.

 December 2025

Nichole Tittle

As we enter this season of Advent, I can’t help but be amazed at the astounding and life-changing nature of humility…the humility that Jesus Christ displayed when He emptied Himself of all His rights and His glory as God, and contained Himself to a flesh and bone, complete with human emotions, aches and pains, and experiencing the effects of this broken and fallen world.

Right before Jesus went to the cross, He humbled Himself before His disciples, taking upon Himself a task that was assigned to lowly servants. He got down on his knees and washed His disciples’ dirty and stinky feet. And He told them that this is what we should do for one another.

The verses we are praying for ourselves and over one another this month focus on how we are called to follow Jesus’ example and interact with one another in humility. We are called to a life where we are humble, gentle, and patient-a life where we consider the needs of our sister-in-Christ above our own.

How life-changing would it be for our church family if we each grew to look a little more like Jesus in this area over the coming months? How would this kind of astounding love affect our community? What would it look like if we consider how our church family might need us, rather than focusing on how our own needs might be met? What if we humbly acknowledge that we can learn so much from every person who crosses our path? What would it look like if gentle patience controls our attitudes and actions rather than our ideals? Whose life might be blessed if we take the time to listen wholeheartedly
to a friend (or a stranger) who is burdened?

How would our hearts be changed as we recognize that our hearts are prone to pride, and humility does not come naturally? How gracious will God be as we acknowledge who He is…and who we are? (He is always oh-so-gracious! Grace upon grace, my friends!) Will we allow the grace that He is pouring over us to overflow onto one another? Will we remain gentle and lowly in heart when faced with people who seem to rub us the wrong way? Or people who challenge our convictions and ideas?

He gives us opportunities all day long, every day. Whether it is allowing humility to shape the attitudes, words and actions that flow out of our hearts as we interact with our families, or how we consider others in our workplace, or our heart’s response when someone cuts in front of us at the grocery store…each response of our hearts and every interaction with another person is giving the Holy Spirit the chance to work in us and through us to make us look more like Jesus.

We are not often put in situations where we are literally called to wash one another’s feet, but as we pray about humbling ourselves before God this month, what is the thing He is calling you to do…to imitate Jesus…to love like Jesus…to become like Jesus?