Thursday, August 2, 2018

The Arena of Love and Truth

If you are in the arena of human endeavor, trying to bring more love and truth into the world, you will make some mistakes. And those little souls, sitting on the sidelines, will delight in pointing them out and harping on them. Your brothers and sisters, however--those who are also in the arena--will encourage you, forgive and be gracious to you, because they are aware of the mistakes they have made in this great endeavor. We must not waste our time being indignant toward those on the sidelines, nor trying to defend ourselves against their persistent accusations, which would simply distract us from the needed efforts. We have compassion for them, pray for them, invite them into the the joyful endeavor, remembering that they "know not what they do." Then we carry on. Jesus did not chase Judas around trying to get him to "get it." And He did not dance around, trying to dodge the bullets of criticism and threats of heresy (punishable by death in His culture) that were being hurled at Him by the powerful, "religious" elites of His culture.

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