Unity, the other side of the coin.

[Dave...]

"In a time like this of tolerance, listen, false teaching will always cry intolerance. It will always say you are being divisive, you are being unloving, you are being ungracious, because it can only survive when it doesn't get scrutinized. So it cries against any intolerance. It cries against any examination, any scrutiny—just let's embrace each other; let's love each other; let's put all that behind us. False doctrine cries the loudest about unity. Listen carefully when you hear the cry for unity, because it may be the cover of false doctrine encroaching. If ever we should follow 1 Thessalonians 5, and examine everything carefully, it's when somebody is crying unity, love, and acceptance." Macarthur

Sometimes telling people the truth, no matter how gentle we try to be, is taken as an offense. Like Paul stated "Have I therefore become your enemy because I tell you the truth?"

Thoughts?

Dave

 

[Who Me]

A suggestion is to ask the person making a fuss about others being ' intolerant '.
Are you tolerant, that is you except that some people will have views totally different to yours?

This sometimes stops them or turns the conversation into a different direction.

It's also sometimes worth asking why do you believe in tolerance, where do you get that belief from?
Then gently pointing out it comes from Christianity, so are they a Christian or just a parasite of Christianity.