2013/03/higher-fidelity.html Mon, 25 Mar 2013 09:56:13 -0500 Gordon Myers en-US hourly 1 http://gordon-myers.com http://gordon-myers.com/2013/03/higher-fidelity.html#c_80 Thu, 18 Apr 2013 17:35:41 -0500 Thnklv http://gordon-myers.com/2013/03/higher-fidelity.html#c_80 http://gordon-myers.com/2013/03/higher-fidelity.html#c_81 Thu, 18 Apr 2013 17:54:35 -0500 Gordon Myers http://gordon-myers.com/2013/03/higher-fidelity.html#c_81 people, but you'd better believe that Christ not only judges but also hates iniquity. And this is a difficult lesson as Christians: how to genuinely hate certain actions while so completely loving, without dissimulation, the person who may be acting them out. And even more challenging is not making a reality out of those actions. Then again, maybe it's not so challenging to love people when we remember their origin. The story of the adulterous woman in John 8 is a great example of this. Jesus didn't express any condemnation toward the adulterous woman. In fact, he was the one lifting her up, redeeming her, forgiving her. But not until she had already felt the sting of having her own sin exposed. He did not spare her from that shame. "Over a wounded sense of its own error, let not mortal thought resuscitate too soon." When any overtly wrong behavior is going on, it needs to be exposed... not to attach it to the person, but so that it can pass away. And that's lifting up ones view, as you said, detaching that sin from them.]]>