4 results for tag: christian love

Q & R with Brad Jersak: “How do we practice Matt. 18:15-18 discipline without using it as a bludgeon?”

Question: I am part of a Christian group going through some unresolved conflict. One side keeps trying to use Matt.18:15-18 like a sledgehammer against the other. How do we read this passage in context when people try to weaponize it?  Response:  Here are Christ’s instructions as translated in N.T. Wright’s New Testament for Everyone version: ‘If another disciple sins against you,’ Jesus continued, ‘go and have it out, just between the two of you alone. If they listen to you, you’ve won back a brother or sister. But if they won’t listen, you should take with you one or two others, so that “everything may ...

If Ye Bite and Devour One Another – Greg Albrecht

“… If Ye Bite and Devour One Another, Take Heed …” (Galatians 5:15) As we in these United States approach the November elections, the cacophony of hyperbolic rhetoric resounding from the chasm between line-in-the sand dogmas of ideology, culture and politics is becoming a thunderous crescendo of dissonance.     Based on the racket of political acrimony and discord we hear it is not unreasonable to assume some prefer that we should become the Disunited States of America. The media broadcasts clamorous feuds, including immigration, crime, equality/inequality, racism, wokeism, the economy, sexual and gender issues and ...

Q&R: What if my partner & I disagree about God?

“Your partner must become completely convinced that you are completely convinced that the path she is on is holy, and that is not for you to dissuade her from it.”

Q & R with Greg Albrecht – “How can I show love and compassion without condoning specific behavior?”

Question: My cousin had a child out of wedlock. Some time after the birth, my family had a baby shower for her. My father, who is Christian, did not feel it was right for him to attend due to the fact that the baby was born out of wedlock, and believed his attendance would only show that he tolerated this behavior. However, at the same time my father attended a funeral for a close friend of the family who committed suicide. I feel that he should have given the same support that he gave to a friend of the family to my cousin. I hate to compare and contrast sins, but isn’t it rather hypocritical of him? Response: Your question seems ...