In Ephesians 4:15, Paul writes
about speaking the truth in love.
Not exact matches
I have followed her for several years now, and what I
love most
about her work is the quiet strength with which she goes
about it, the way
in which she proves you don't have to
speak in anger to
speak a hard
truth.
The Christian life is not
about tolerance... but
truth... The Bible is quite specific
about what sin is... we must
love the sinner but not tolerate the sin... being a Christian requires us to know and
speak the
truth in love... tolerance means accepting everything without judgment... we can not do that
in this society
in the midst of moral decay.
We can
speak the
truth in Love and NOT waiver on what God said
about this issue.
This is part of what St. Paul had
in mind, I think, when he wrote
about «
speaking the
truth in love.»
It's important to «
speak the
truth,» but we can't forget
about the «
in love» part (Ephesians 4:15).
Over the centuries Christians have seized on the cross as their central symbol, not by accident but because Christian insight has understood that it is
in the one who
loved us and gave himself for us that the
truth about God and humankind is
spoken; and that this
loving and giving were consummated on Calvary.
So, when we
speak about God's
love for the stranger, it is not a conversation that is based on any one particular verse pulled randomly from an ancient text, but a striking
truth that is rooted
in the entire revelation of God's salvific activity that culminates on the cross.
In the last few pages of the book he
speaks frankly
about the «serious crisis» suffered by concept of «Traditio», the «deep wound which the Church is experiencing after Vatican II», owing to the refashioning of the understanding of Revelation from the conceptual, propositional approach of Vatican I and scholastic theology to the notion of Revelation as experience and encounter, leading to «a displacement of the dynamic aspect of revelation to the detriment of the noetic», «a gap between
truth and
love» and a «strong subjectivism».
When we
speak about God's
love for the stranger, it is not a conversation that is based on any one particular verse pulled randomly from an ancient text, but a striking
truth that is rooted
in the entire revelation of God's salvific activity that culminates on the cross.
Eph 4 nkjv 14 that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried
about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men,
in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting, 15 but,
speaking the
truth in love, may grow up
in all things into Him who is the head — Christ
i am very simple man and I could never tell anyone I
love One thing
about myself is that I share from my heart.I will not say things I don't mean, especially
in a relationship but I also have had to learn how to be assertive and
speak the
truth in love not be so scared and shy, worrying
about what s...