larson i guess you could call me the late bird

LARSON I GUESS YOU COULD CALL ME THE LATE BIRD FULL

“Because it destroys the definition of marriage!” Really? How exactly does their love hurt your family? I suspect any problems in your family might be found a bit closer to home… Hate a sin like rape, murder, incest, child abuse, torture, sex slavery, or one of the other multitudes of damaging and destructive sins.īut why do we Christians sometimes focus on hating the “sins” in others that they say results in love and community? If a homosexual couple wants to get married because they say they love each other, why would we say they cannot? So if you really, really want to hate someone’s sin, hate a sin which is actually hurtful to them and to others. The reason God says some strong things about certain sins in the Bible is because these sins hurt us, and He loves us, and doesn’t want to see us hurt by sin. God is not in the sin-management business. We also have to recognize that even if God does “hate” (which I don’t think He does … at least, not the way we understand it), He doesn’t anywhere tell us to hate.įurthermore, we have to recognize that when God uses this sort of language about certain sins, it is not because He that upset at the person for committing the sin, or even at the sin itself for being so “terrible.” God isn’t nearly as worked up about sin as we are.

We have to understand why God says what He says. Well, there are some statement like this in the Bible, but such statements require great care in understanding and applying them to life.

LARSON I GUESS YOU COULD CALL ME THE LATE BIRD FULL

When a watching world says Christians are full of hate, it is not a good strategy to tell them that we don’t hate them we just hate their sin. We Christians pay lip service to the idea that “We are all sinners” but we reveal that we do not really believe this when label someone else a “sinner.”īy labeling them a “sinner,” we condemn the sin of someone else as worse than our own. If only they would listen to what you tell them to do… them” mentality, where you are the “righteous” person looking down your nose at the poor, wretched, ignorant “sinners” down below who just cannot get their act together. To label someone a “sinner” reveals an “us vs. To label someone a “sinner” is to imply that they are outside of God’s grace and unless they clean up their act, cannot be forgiven. The simple fact that we label the person we are talking about as a “sinner” indicates that we do not have love for them in the first place. There are several things wrong with the statement, “Love the Sinner Hate the Sin.” Let’s begin with the word “sinner” There are so many things wrong with the “Love the Sinner Hate the Sin” statement, I hardly know where to begin. … You know, I love the sinner, but hate the sin.”

“Oh, I don’t hate gay people, I just hate the gay lifestyle. More and more I hear this said in the context of LGBT people and gay marriage. It is common in Christian circles to hear admonitions to “Love the Sinner hate the sin.”

Larson i guess you could call me the late bird