My estimate:
How we rank crimes, failures, and sin, has a high probability of not matching how Jesus would rank those, if he would.
What I find in the Bible, is that sins rank highest, no matter how we define crimes and failures.
Also ranked highest, according to Jesus, is a determination to sin no more, though we try and fail, again and again. I think, that “keep on trying,” shows faith and hope are somehow still alive.
Anybody who seeks forgiveness, help, kindness, love, relief, protection, and shelter from Jesus, and despite repeated failures keeps on trying . . . I would not get between that person and Jesus.
Whatever a person’s failures are, Jesus is their judge, and thankfully I do not have to worry about failing that person by getting in their way - but I do try to point them along the way to Jesus.
And, I try to convey, there is no path that sin can accompany them, at some point along their way that Jesus knows but is unknown to most of us.
Study of Jesus may clarify that point for some, but more important, is focus on Jesus while not worrying about that point of leaving sin behind.
To wit: Your sins are not you, and you cannot take your sins with you. Pride is what keeps sin sticking to you. Leave pride behind. Ask Jesus to wash away pride.
Pride is what keeps sin sticking to you. Leave pride behind. Ask Jesus to wash away pride (sin)....
Do you suppose the UMC is teaching this ⬆️, regarding same sex lifestyles and marriages?