Love your enemies, pray for those who persecute you, do good to those who mistreat you. Anyone who claims to be Christian should recognize those instructions.
Are you praying for the conversion of the abortionists, the queers, the socialists, the mohammedans?
Any believer is rightly infuriated by circumstances and atitudes which make those things easier to practice and minimize the incentive to repentance.
Yes. We must strongly oppose the evil being normalized...at the same time we must pray and work to help show those lost souls the Gospel.
Imagine what good Charles Colson accomplished....all because someone witnessed to him.
Right now the real life “Roe” of Roe v. Wade (I forgot her name) is a Christian and helping turn people’s hearts around.
Think about the testimony of the man with legions of demons! Christ saved him, and even though Jesus was later asked to leave the region THAT MAN was still there, in his right mind, to testify about how the Galilean saved him.
Jesus did not embrace evil behavior, he opposed it—but he also showed love to those caught up in that sin.
Yes. We must strongly oppose the evil being normalized...at the same time we must pray and work to help show those lost souls the Gospel.
Imagine what good Charles Colson accomplished....all because someone witnessed to him.
Right now the real life “Roe” of Roe v. Wade (I forgot her name) is a Christian and helping turn people’s hearts around.
Think about the testimony of the man with legions of demons! Christ saved him, and even though Jesus was later asked to leave the region THAT MAN was still there, in his right mind, to testify about how the Galilean saved him.
Jesus did not embrace evil behavior, he opposed it—but he also showed love to those caught up in that sin.
People who love to quote some scripture often ignore the fact that the Bible often shows a balance. Sure one is to love their enemies but the scriptures also tells us:
People today are simply afraid to tell other people that they are sinning and they need to stop it and repent to God. Now which is more loving 1) to keep quiet and say nothing to "the abortionists, the queers, the socialists, and the mohammedans" hoping that our prayers will do the trick; or 2) to tell them they are living in sin and they need to get right with God?
It's a cop out for us to say we need to pray. We really need to start acting (and I'm including myself in this failing). The reason we don't do more of this is simply evidence of our disobedient nature before God. How often we "pray" for our unsaved fathers and mothers rather than simply share the truth. In the end we show that we don't love them as much as we claim and we fail our Lord in following His commandments. This is our depraved nature.
BTW-Just to be clear, non-Christians are not OUR enemies. They are God's enemies. And since they are God's enemies, they are by de facto our enemies who God commands for us to love simply because He loves and cares for all. Non-Christians cannot see or understand the depths of their sins and so we SHOULD be loving and forgiving.
It is OUR responsibility as Christians to tell them they need to repent and ask God's forgiveness. And if they do not repent, they continue to be enemies of God and the wrath of God rest on them.