Interesting that you touch on the difference in treatment "...When It's Your Kid." I have been thinking about that dichotomy a lot for the last few months. Not so much with the issues discussed in Galatians such as observing special days, feasts, etc., but in regards to the command to 'love your neighbor.' In today’s church, the command to love your neighbor seems to be shifting in meaning, often interpreted as an uncritical affirmation of each person’s choices or lifestyle. But true love has never been about blanket acceptance without discernment; it’s about seeking the best for someone, even if it means acknowledging hard truths or calling out behaviors that may be harmful. Real love includes standards because it’s invested in the other person’s long-term wellbeing. As parents, we apply standards to our children not to control or condemn but to guide and nurture, even if that guidance requires difficult conversations in the present. While others aren’t our children and we can’t presume to treat them as such, the principle holds: love without a sense of what is good and right isn’t love-it’s indifference cloaked in kindness. Genuine love doesn’t sacrifice truth but brings it alongside compassion. Just some thoughts I've been mulling over for a while now.
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Interesting that you touch on the difference in treatment "...When It's Your Kid." I have been thinking about that dichotomy a lot for the last few months. Not so much with the issues discussed in Galatians such as observing special days, feasts, etc., but in regards to the command to 'love your neighbor.' In today’s church, the command to love your neighbor seems to be shifting in meaning, often interpreted as an uncritical affirmation of each person’s choices or lifestyle. But true love has never been about blanket acceptance without discernment; it’s about seeking the best for someone, even if it means acknowledging hard truths or calling out behaviors that may be harmful. Real love includes standards because it’s invested in the other person’s long-term wellbeing. As parents, we apply standards to our children not to control or condemn but to guide and nurture, even if that guidance requires difficult conversations in the present. While others aren’t our children and we can’t presume to treat them as such, the principle holds: love without a sense of what is good and right isn’t love-it’s indifference cloaked in kindness. Genuine love doesn’t sacrifice truth but brings it alongside compassion. Just some thoughts I've been mulling over for a while now.