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Do people's sins scare you?

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poetofparables

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Be honest, are you open to listen and help people with sins that would make some peoples skin crawl.

Are you sickened by the smallest sin a person commits or can you take on the big stuff.

Is there a line? or is there no line to draw.
 
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uhm people? the the singular of that word is person. I am a person. my lack of sensitivity to my personal sins is a concern.
 
jasonc said:
uhm people? the the singular of that word is person. I am a person. my lack of sensitivity to my personal sins is a concern.
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Really? So you mean you want to be sensitive to you're sins. Ok, but I was talking about how we all deal with understanding other peoples sins, and if there's a line we should say, na ah.
 
poetofparables said:
Really? So you mean you want to be sensitive to you're sins. Ok, but I was talking about how we all deal with understanding other peoples sins, and if there's a line we should say, na ah.
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yes. if im angry and don't see it then it says a lot about me and my heart. we often are hyproctical when we comment about another sins. we go really harsh on them and yet ignore our one. that is why jesus said first remove that beam in your eye first!
 
jasonc said:
yes. if im angry and don't see it then it says a lot about me and my heart. we often are hyproctical when we comment about another sins. we go really harsh on them and yet ignore our one. that is why jesus said first remove that beam in your eye first!
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Did Jesus say how far one should go when being open to understanding peoples sins? Or did he set some limit.
 
jasonc said:
are you talking about counseling and compassion?
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Not really that's clinical and usually detached, no I mean getting your hands in the dirt and pulling up peoples sins understanding.
 
PoP.......if you only had even an inkling of an idea.................... :eek2
 
Willie T said:
PoP.......if you only had even an inkling of an idea.................... :eek2
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An inkling of what Willie? I'm always open for correction on anything, if you would care to elaborate.

Do you think because I just open my mouth I believe everything I say. I say it so it will be falsified, then I can be sure I'm right.
 
While I haven't written a book about it, someone else has. You might find a carbon copy of our church, and what we do, in the book by John Burke, entitled: No Perfect People Allowed.

Where many other people do as you said, and give up with a "na ah" is about where we begin.
 
Willie T said:
While I haven't written a book about it, someone else has. You might find a carbon copy of our church, and what we do, in the book by John Burke, entitled: No Perfect People Allowed.

Where many other people do as you said, and give up with a "na ah" is about where we begin.
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Willie, I just wanted to know how we each deal with other peoples sins. I believe we all should get in there and do everything. But I know that's just how I see it and I was trying mighty hard not to reflect that possibly bias opinion.
 
You didn't reflect anything bad. You are right, we all do set limits..... no matter what the reasons.

I think it is well known here that I worked with Sex Offenders (Yes, Child Molesters) for decades. (Still do in a smaller capacity) Most people can't imagine doing that. That's not a bad thing. Some of us just have different levels of what we are willing (or able) to handle.

And, trust me, clinical "detachment" doesn't work in THAT world.
 
Willie T said:
You didn't reflect anything bad. You are right, we all do set limits..... no matter what the reasons.

I think it is well known here that I worked with Sex Offenders (Yes, Child Molesters) for decades. (Still do in a smaller capacity) Most people can't imagine doing that. That's not a bad thing. Some of us just have different levels of what we are willing (or able) to handle.

And, trust me, clinical "detachment" doesn't work in THAT world.
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Well that's so amazing mate, I can't even get my own parents to embrace dealing with my mental illness.
 
poetofparables said:
Be honest, are you open to listen and help people with sins that would make some peoples skin crawl.

Are you sickened by the smallest sin a person commits or can you take on the big stuff.

Is there a line? or is there no line to draw.
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Depends on what you mean by 'take them on'.

I'll take on anybody's sin insofar as sharing the gospel with them. In regard to helping them through some kind of rehab and recovery....depends on how I may or may not be gifted and equipped to do that.
 
Jethro Bodine said:
Depends on what you mean by 'take them on'.

I'll take on anybody's sin insofar as sharing the gospel with them. In regard to helping them through some kind of rehab and recovery....depends on how I may or may not be gifted and equipped to do that.
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Oh yeah that's a good point, a real good point. There's obviously more to helping than helping, boy I've got to go rethink this now.

Thanks Jethro that's kinda what I was looking for too, your a smart guy.
 
Willie T said:
You didn't reflect anything bad. You are right, we all do set limits..... no matter what the reasons.

I think it is well known here that I worked with Sex Offenders (Yes, Child Molesters) for decades. (Still do in a smaller capacity) Most people can't imagine doing that. That's not a bad thing. Some of us just have different levels of what we are willing (or able) to handle.

And, trust me, clinical "detachment" doesn't work in THAT world.
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I had to forgive a pedophile. leos must deal with them and some of them are Christians. I don't know any in corrections lately that I could ask.
 
Interesting question...
I'm not equipped to counsel or help on many areas, but if someone wants to talk to me about something I am willing to listen and offer the help I can. If I hear about a horrible crime on TV...that scares me. But on an individual level, I'd say I'm more scared of my sin than I am another person's.
 
It is an interesting question. You think no way can you forgive a pedophile. Then you find out that they themself were molested as a child. Next case is a cold-blooded serial killer. Dig a little deeper and they had a brain injury. Post-mortem MRI shows both frontal lobes stone cold. You read the life history of a man named Phineas Gage who had the foulest tongue ever of a human being, who could say anything evil. Then you read how he had been a railway worker who had a meter-long iron bar blasted through the left side of his head, forever altering his personality.

Well, the question was about feeling scared of a person's sins, so yes, bad sins do scare me, why would they not? But do feelings always lead to correct judgment? Are we to be judges at all, or is that the purview of God alone? Christians often say to hate the sin, but love the sinner. It's not in the Bible, but maybe it's the way to go until we know as much as God does.
 
You never know what it took, good or bad, to bring a person to the point where you happened to run across them in life.

"There, but for the grace of God..................." (You know the rest.)
 
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