The Sin of Passing By. [How Not to Preach to the Broken]

Excerpt

Sinners are wounded — they will not be further beaten by me.

God expects me to be better than those who beat and robbed that man of his possessions —
to be like the #GoodSamaritan.

I will not rob the LGBTQ, or anyone with an alternative lifestyle, of the hope that is rightfully theirs.

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Dear Self-Righteous,

Do you think they don’t already know?
That their alternative lifestyles will lead them to hell?

Even the demoniac who cried out,

“What have I to do with You, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg You, do not torment me!”

— when the legion of evil spirits was cast out —
he wanted to get in the boat and follow Jesus.

They too will want to go with Jesus,
once they are free from their physical and spiritual chains.
Guaranteed.

Learn from Jesus.

He did not preach to him — He helped him.
He did not condemn him — He spoke to him and restored him.

Jesus didn’t say:
“Stop living among the tombs. Stop breaking the chains you’re bound with.
Stop being a fool — a sinner. Stop letting demons live inside you.”

Yet those are exactly the things you say
when you act preachy and self-righteous.

What they do is not okay —
but I will not be like the priest and the Levite who walked past the man beaten by robbers.
Like the lowly Samaritan — despised by those who considered themselves holy —
I will stop by the broken, and where I can, I will bind their wounds.

Sinners are wounded — they will not be further beaten by me.
God expects me to be better than those who beat and robbed that man —
to be like the #GoodSamaritan.

I thus will not rob the LGBTQ,
or anyone with an alternative lifestyle,
of the hope that is rightfully theirs.

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Good night.
— Don Kenobi
#dk | #OldManInTheMolue

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Post Script

A fair question you ask:

“What if they die while you’re being gentle with them?”

I concede — I don’t have a ready answer.
But perhaps the real questions are these:

1. What if you die while causing them to lose hope?
2. What if you die while being self-righteous and driving them away?
3. They already bear enough sin — why add to it by making them resent your arrogance?
4. If the Holy Spirit has abandoned them, shouldn’t we intercede for them?
5. And if the Spirit was never with them, shouldn’t we introduce them to Him?

We can only do our best.
Whatever remains undone — belongs to the Holy Spirit.

🙏🏽🙏🏽
It’s 4:44 a.m.
I need to return to rest.