It's taken me almost a week to post this, but, I felt after the message at Church on Sunday I needed to add a few comments. I will not go into the whole sermon, but, just focus on a key point that is so often over looked and contrary to todays modern, right wing Christianity.

The subject was Mercy. God's mercy and how that should affect us. Taking that a step further is how should Christians treat those who disagree? The answer is simply with the same mercy God gives us. Obviously, we are imperfect in our lives, but, our hearts and efforts should be in this. One good example we saw this year was the election. How much hate and vitriol did we hear from the so called Religious right against Obama? A real good example. Jesus teaches that we can disagree, we can be angry but we have to love, show forgiveness, mercy, tolerance and not to judge any single individual. We do not condone the actions and there is, like I said, nothing wrong with disagreeing and trying to show a different point of view, but, it needs to be done in a positive not hateful way.

That's my poor attempt at commenting on this small aspect. The Pastor has a blog with the key points on the sermon that can be found here.

-Richard