“Your parents thought that getting having an alcoholic, drug-addicted, promiscuous, foul-mouthed person talk to you about God is no a good idea. Your parents would be right, however . . . .”
She HAS repented from all of that, but she’s also smart enough to know she will ALWAYS be an alcoholic, and a drug addict.
Again, if you watch her presentation to the ELCA youth summit, it’s been 20 years since she’s had a drink.
It doesn’t make her an ex-alcoholic. Once you are an addict, you are ALWAYS an addict, no matter how long its been since you’ve had a drink, or a fix.
We tend to trust Paul, though he killed a bunch of people. We trust Solomon, who wrote most of the Psalms.
You would think Christians, of all people, would understand the dangers of attacking other Christians without all the facts. In fact, judging anybody at all, you’d think would be something ESPECIALLY Christians would at least have some sort of reservation aforethought.
This is the think that disaffects looking for a place in God’s Kingdom, and not finding it.
Christians THINK they are perfect, but they are only saved.