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Re: Love Everybody
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Originally Posted by Cindy
Not necessarily, some just seem to find AFF.  I find the same attitudes in other areas and denominations. While trying to defend something that doesn't need defending, (truth) some attack people. It just hurts my heart. How are we going to love sinners, if we don't love our brothers and sisters?  |
I like what Tim Gill tweeted the other day:
"Telling the truth in anger doesn't diminish truth, just the credibility of the speaker."
There are couple of quandaries that come up when people don't show love to one another--even when speaking *hard* truths. First, those who are trying to appear loving feel pressured to not speak up at all in certain situations lest they be associated with those who aren't speaking the truth in love. Secondly, when you speak the same truth in love that another spoke in anger, you run the risk (again) of guilt by association.
My Dad drilled this into me: If you say you love God, but you don't love your brother, you're a liar. (I John)
If I have to err, I would prefer to err on the side of grace and love than on the side of causing offense or provoking someone to anger.
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
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