How many of you can finish this statement:<\/p>\n
“Love the sinner….”<\/p>\n\n
Tony Campolo says “wherever someone is hurting, there is Jesus.”<\/p>\n
But then he also finishes the above statement. For those who say, “I love the sinner, but I hate his sin.” His response is that “that is just the opposite of what Jesus says\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6. Jesus says, ‘love the sinner and hate your own sin<\/strong>; and after you get rid of the sin in your own life, then you can begin talking about the sin in your brother or sister\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s life.'”<\/p>\n I continue to believe that the more we get to know people and know their stories<\/a> and know their backgrounds and know their hurts — the more we realize how similar we are and loving them becomes that much easier.<\/p>\n Huge props to Theresa<\/span> for sharing this video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" How many of you can finish this statement: “Love the sinner….” Tony Campolo says “wherever someone is hurting, there is Jesus.” But then he also finishes the above statement. For those who say, “I love the sinner, but I hate his sin.” His response is that “that is just the opposite of what Jesus says\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6. … Continue reading Love the sinner…<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,19],"tags":[2139,2141,1525,2140,1594,11],"class_list":["post-4503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-reflections","tag-bridging-the-gap","tag-hate-the-sin","tag-hurt","tag-love-the-sinner","tag-tony-campolo","tag-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-1aD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11326,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4503\/revisions\/11326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}