So what does it mean to love another believer? How do we love someone we do not agree with?
You see not all believers agree. And this is really nothing new, we see disagreements in Acts. The early church has issues with each other and who could be a christian, and wether you needed to be circumcised before you can be a follower of Christ…
Today we disagree over age of baptism, age of communion, frequency of communion. We disagree about what the Bible says about alot of topics. Some we stick hard to what the Bible says while some we let slide what the Bible says. For instance according to the Hebrew scriptures we are not to eat shrimp or bacon, but I love bacon and shrimp and especially bacon wrapped shrimp. So we are not that keen on keeping these things not allowed by the Bible, but homosexuality is right out because the Bible says it is wrong….
How can we love a brother/sister in Christ if we hate who they are? The sin committed is not the person is what some will say. We can hate the sin and love the sinner. But what if the sin being committed have no choice to do what they do? How do you hate the sin and love the sinner when they are linked and can not be separated?
1 John 2:3-11 tells us if we say we are light but hate our brother we are not light but darkness, and are leading people astray. We can no come down on someone for who they are or what they do and follow after Christ. Even Jesus Himself said that He did not come to judge, but to love. People would be judged by wether they followed what He taught or not, but He did not come to judge, He came to give us an example.
So live like Jesus and love everyone and show them how much God loves them.
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