Or better yet, conjure up some saccharine language
about speaking the truth in love before breaking out our spec - removing tweezers to help get our minds off of these uncomfortable logs in our own eyes.
We heard from an array of fantastic speakers: Ashley Crouch schooled us on social media communication, Ryan T. Anderson and Sherif Girgis reminded us what marriage is, and Professor Robert George called us to be heroes,
speaking the truth in love for our neighbors on campus.
Christians risk angering the very ones they want to see saved (like the blind and deaf person may get angry at the one who saved his life by pushing him out of the way of an oncoming train if he fell down in the process and broke his arm)... but a true Christian will
speak the truth in love anyway; because another's hatred and anger at them for doing so is far less important to them than a deaf and blind person knowing the truth and being saved from eternal separation from God (i.e. hell)
No, the Kingdom of God primary comes through giving cups of cold water,
through speaking the truth in love, through loving, feeding, and clothing those who have less than we do, through hugs to the lonely, meals to the hurting, through being present with the broken.
As universalists, you may think I'm naive and wrong, but is there no room in your heart for compassion and understanding for the Evangelist who thinks he sees lost people around him and
speaks the truth in love as he understands it.
In this season after Pentecost, as the church continues to reflect on the gift of the Spirit and the challenge of our Easter calling, it is time to once again take up the mantle
of speaking truth in love and exposing the big and small lies that entangle us and threaten our undoing.
And I began to learn what it means to «
speak the truth in love».
Before we speak, we must make sure we are
speaking the truth in love, and for the glory of God.
But
speaking the truth in love, let us grow in every way into Him who is the head — Christ.
Does he really heed Ephesians» counsel to «
speak the truth in love»?
But along with the call to prophetic witness we must also consider biblical admonitions to «
speak the truth in love,» to «be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another,» and to «do justice, love mercy, and walk humbly with God.»
«Rather,
speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ» (Eph 4:15)
``... Anything you could say, all that «
speaking the truth in love,» I've heard it all before.
But the concept of the personal and personal values can be taught only where they can also be caught in community life where one can «
speak the truth in love» and learn and assimilate it in that process.
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.
It is far better to «
speak the truth in love» (Eph 4:15).
That should tell you that
we speak the truth in love.
Dominic reminds us that we need to be truly grounded in our faith so that we can respond when challenged, but always «
speaking the truth in love» as he did.
When we do, He will help us learn to
speak the truth in love.
Ephesians 4:15 says we must
speak the truth in love that means we can not erase the truth of Gods word to love neither can we beat sinners up with the truth without love.
All I am saying is that in the practice of our freedom of speech, we who claim to follow Jesus must make sure that we do not use the non-gospel right to say whatever we want in a way that violates the gospel - centered call to
speak the truth in love.
The New Testament describes such loving confrontation as «
speaking the truth in love» (Eph.