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Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol - We just started going back to church, so I want to say this carefully, because I’m fully aware I could be missing something...
…but I’ve been feeling very frustrated with, what I perceive to be, a lack of passion for the truth in the church
In a recent sermons, someone said something like, “Hurting people with our words is wrong and we shouldn’t do that.”
Not “don’t be unnecessarily cruel…” which I agree with.
It’s more like… “don’t make anyone feel bad.”
Which is NOT the same thing, and frankly… I don’t know if that’s even possible.
And I definitely don’t know if that’s what we should be trying to prioritize right now… people’s FEELINGS, of all things.
Because if “hurting someone’s feelings” becomes the standard, then truth is AUTOMATICALLY in trouble.
So what is the Christian church actually going for, here?
That my responsibility is to protect your emotional comfort… even if it requires me to stay silent while you live a lie?
Because I firmly believe the opposite.
Lying to someone is wrong, BUT ALSO allowing someone to keep believing a lie is wrong.
I guess the point I’m trying to get at here is that I feel like a lot of what gets called “kindness” right now is just fear of conflict, or put another way, I feel like kindness is used as a shield for Christians to be passive.
“I’m not perfect, therefore I won’t correct anyone.”
“I’m not God, therefore I won’t say anything.”
“I might make a mistake, so I’ll stay out of it.”