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ColesCountyDem

(6,944 posts)
Thu Jul 2, 2015, 04:54 PM Jul 2015

Excellent read-- "6 Ways Christians Lost This Week"

We who call ourselves Christians lost a great deal over the past few days, though it’s probably not in the way you might think.

1) We lost the chance to be loving.


So many professed followers of Jesus spent the last week on the attack, desperately fighting a battle long after it had already been decided. Instead of simply looking for ways to personally affirm our faith in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision, too many of us frankly just lost it. We spit out vitriol and we cursed strangers and we lamented America’s demise and we threatened with Bible verses and we treated others with contempt. Our response to the LGBT community and those who support them wasn’t compassion and decency and peacemaking, it was sour grapes, damnation, and middle fingers.

By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.” John 13:35

2) We lost the chance to be good neighbors....

More: http://johnpavlovitz.com/2015/07/01/6-ways-christians-lost-this-week/
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Excellent read-- "6 Ways Christians Lost This Week" (Original Post) ColesCountyDem Jul 2015 OP
Excellent read, indeed. classof56 Jul 2015 #1
And the LGBT Christians lost even more, Betty Karlson Jul 2015 #2
 

Betty Karlson

(7,231 posts)
2. And the LGBT Christians lost even more,
Fri Jul 3, 2015, 07:40 AM
Jul 2015

since they are once again blamed from two sides: the hurt secularist LGBT, and the self-proclaimed "Christians".

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