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Originally Posted by kclee4jc
We have a responsibility to proclaim truth in love. Even when the truth is offensive.
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I agree! I recently pulled some of our *ahem* heftier saints aside, and sat them down over a nice low-fat meal and had a conversation about this very thing. I told them that as much as I loved them, I couldn't just sit by and watch them eat themselves into a gluttonous stupor. Needless to say, although I spoke very lovingly, some of them had the nerve to be offended. I said, "but it's the truth!" "In love!" They started off on some defense about heredity and medical conditions and such, and I said incredulously "You want me to believe you were BORN THIS WAY?"
Well, as you can imagine, our Sunday morning crowed "thinned out" a bit, but I felt good knowing that I had provided gentle correction in love, and that they will probably get everything straightened out and come back to church at some point now that they know the truth.
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