Comments on: 137 http://asbojesus.wordpress.com/2007/10/08/137/ Just another WordPress.com weblog Fri, 04 Jul 2008 21:16:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: jonbirch http://asbojesus.wordpress.com/2007/10/08/137/#comment-9416 jonbirch Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:17:09 +0000 http://asbojesus.wordpress.com/2007/10/08/137/#comment-9416 thank you marisa. the truth often is uncomfortable eh? thanks for getting it... :-) thank you marisa.
the truth often is uncomfortable eh?
thanks for getting it… :-)

]]> By: marisa http://asbojesus.wordpress.com/2007/10/08/137/#comment-9413 marisa Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:20:13 +0000 http://asbojesus.wordpress.com/2007/10/08/137/#comment-9413 i was linked to your blog by a friend. i've been reading backward from the beginning. you have a gift for sharing often uncomfortable truth. thank you for it. i was linked to your blog by a friend.
i’ve been reading backward from the beginning. you have a gift for sharing often uncomfortable truth. thank you for it.

]]> By: jonbirch http://asbojesus.wordpress.com/2007/10/08/137/#comment-790 jonbirch Fri, 12 Oct 2007 16:23:43 +0000 http://asbojesus.wordpress.com/2007/10/08/137/#comment-790 haha... good point. :-) haha… good point. :-)

]]> By: Martha http://asbojesus.wordpress.com/2007/10/08/137/#comment-785 Martha Fri, 12 Oct 2007 15:53:04 +0000 http://asbojesus.wordpress.com/2007/10/08/137/#comment-785 Fortunately most parents manage to hate the sin (bad behaviour), love the sinner (their child) and NOT judge then anyway! Fortunately most parents manage to hate the sin (bad behaviour), love the sinner (their child) and NOT judge then anyway!

]]> By: jonbirch http://asbojesus.wordpress.com/2007/10/08/137/#comment-758 jonbirch Thu, 11 Oct 2007 09:04:00 +0000 http://asbojesus.wordpress.com/2007/10/08/137/#comment-758 very true, jason. the cartoon is about the way we behave really... but sometimes phrases like this can give our prujudice an inch and we take a yard! i do wonder whether a better phrase was used by jesus himself... '...love your neighbour as you love yourself.' with this phrase the focus is not on the sin but on loving the person. if we truly love the person, we will not want to see their lives distorted by sin, but we will hopefully not view then through prejudiced eyes in the first place. very true, jason. the cartoon is about the way we behave really… but sometimes phrases like this can give our prujudice an inch and we take a yard!
i do wonder whether a better phrase was used by jesus himself… ‘…love your neighbour as you love yourself.’ with this phrase the focus is not on the sin but on loving the person. if we truly love the person, we will not want to see their lives distorted by sin, but we will hopefully not view then through prejudiced eyes in the first place.

]]> By: jason http://asbojesus.wordpress.com/2007/10/08/137/#comment-754 jason Thu, 11 Oct 2007 03:20:49 +0000 http://asbojesus.wordpress.com/2007/10/08/137/#comment-754 Just because people don't practice what they preach (aka loving the sinner) doesn't mean that what they preach is wrong. (CS Lewis made this point well in </i>Mere Christianity</i>.) How would you alter this equation to prevent judging: love the sin? It would be hard to argue that Jesus didn't love sinners, but just as hard to argue that he didn't hate sin. Just because people don’t practice what they preach (aka loving the sinner) doesn’t mean that what they preach is wrong. (CS Lewis made this point well in Mere Christianity.)

How would you alter this equation to prevent judging: love the sin?

It would be hard to argue that Jesus didn’t love sinners, but just as hard to argue that he didn’t hate sin.

]]> By: Sarah http://asbojesus.wordpress.com/2007/10/08/137/#comment-732 Sarah Tue, 09 Oct 2007 23:09:11 +0000 http://asbojesus.wordpress.com/2007/10/08/137/#comment-732 Yep that's what it's like. Sas Yep that’s what it’s like.

Sas

]]> By: jonbirch http://asbojesus.wordpress.com/2007/10/08/137/#comment-717 jonbirch Tue, 09 Oct 2007 03:45:39 +0000 http://asbojesus.wordpress.com/2007/10/08/137/#comment-717 i am afraid mine is too, sadly. i am afraid mine is too, sadly.

]]> By: Laura http://asbojesus.wordpress.com/2007/10/08/137/#comment-715 Laura Tue, 09 Oct 2007 03:33:26 +0000 http://asbojesus.wordpress.com/2007/10/08/137/#comment-715 My experience with the equation is thus..."judge them + gossip about them anyway". My experience with the equation is thus…”judge them + gossip about them anyway”.

]]> By: Rick http://asbojesus.wordpress.com/2007/10/08/137/#comment-713 Rick Mon, 08 Oct 2007 22:56:13 +0000 http://asbojesus.wordpress.com/2007/10/08/137/#comment-713 Linking back to you on this - more in your picture than I could manage. So very true - thanks. Linking back to you on this - more in your picture than I could manage. So very true - thanks.

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