Reflections on a Church shooting – (This one happened to be in a Liberal Church)

Reflections on a Church shooting – (This one happened to be in a Liberal Church)

Source: Healthy Liberal Christianity

Author: Wayne Gustafson

Date: 30 July, 2008

And let’s learn to listen compassionately to one another. If we only love those who are our friends, then we necessarily contribute to the vilification of our enemies. Healthy Liberal Christianity takes Jesus’ mandate to “love our enemies and pray for those who persecute us” very seriously. It won’t feel good like revenge is supposed to. It won’t help us pat ourselves on the back because we’re right and our enemies are wrong. But it might extract out of a violent culture a little bit of the very venom that keeps the violence going. And that is worth a lot

Wayne
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