Friends - There will be no post this morning. Instead, I request that you go and read my friend Buttercup's post from yesterday. It is so searingly honest, so passionately written, so moving, that it is well worth your time. I really wish I could write like that.
Chapter One
You bless me with your kindness and encouragement. God is so good to love us in spite of our wrongdoings. He is grace personified! I am humbled that He would even look my way, let alone redeem me from such blatant rebelliousness against Him. Because He first loved me, I am able to love in response.
ReplyDeleteAlthough I do not spell it out in this post (though it is woven in its foundation), it is my hope that we, the church body, can imitate Christ in His grace, that we would become a body of believers who see the person before their sin and treat accordingly. This is not the same thing as excusing their wrongdoing. Acceptance is different than tolerance or turning a blind eye. Something I have struggled with in the church for a very long time. I might be starting to ramble here....
Thank you, sweet friend!
Last night I just read a section in Clement of Alexandria's book The One Who Knows God in which he says that we should always treat everyone as a brother regardless of whether they are a brother now, because they may become a brother in the future.
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