@obrown19

1 year ago

Dear Tim, Thank you for always providing content with a kind, gentle, and caring perspective. I am not a conservative Christian, yet I am a subscriber of your channel because I can count on your views being expressed in a coherent, rational, and yet kind way. I watch every video because it is important in my life to be loving and to understand my Christian brothers and sisters who are conservative. In understanding where you and they are coming from, I hopefully keep myself from falling into a hole of judgement and hatred. At one time during the pandemic I was definitely there, but thanks to mainly the grace of God I’ve learned to feel compassion and to achieve a level of some understanding. Not always, but most of the time. So thank you so much for what you contribute here. I have family members and neighbors who believe the same way you do, yet who express their views with great venom, and interspersed with sentiments of hatred, hyperbole, wrath, and wild and bizarre accusations. Sometimes even cursing, war-language, imprecatory language, etc. It is scary to me and I can’t find what is in it (if anything) that reflects Christ. The hardest thing is that I know they are believers yet they don’t see that their behavior is not reflecting who they say their Savior is. They really have no idea. I have been following Rosario for years (since her conversion) and have read two of her books. I cringed when I read her article, which seems ostensibly about her desire to publicly repent, yet to me it seems even more like a call to action to encourage others to debate this topic and to perhaps join in some sort of movement to call transgendered people by their birth pronoun rather than their preferred pronoun. She attacks so many people in this article, she calls out so many divergent perspectives on the gospel; she is certain she is right. And indeed, she may be right! But the tone of this article is dramatic and pronounced and so intensely negative it can’t be missed. The article actually made me sick. I’ve been thinking about this ever since you posted it and finally felt like I could write about it. I read all of the comments too. I wish people could see that if you ARE right—100% right—yet you cannot express your views with love—or anything even approaching love—you are at best diluting your message and at worst turning people off to the gospel. You also may be deceiving yourself about your motives. It is a sad and sorry thing. Just some general comments, not about this specific video and article: I do think that if people would take some time and pray before posting they might post differently. I mean really, really pray—labor in prayer— give it a few days or weeks or even months—they might come out sounding not quite so ugly. Too, I think sometimes people think that young folks are leaving the faith because they love immorality or hate the truth or are groomed and corrupted, when actually it could be that they just are looking for Jesus and don’t see Him in what is being presented to them. At any rate, thanks for all you do to not be a clanging symbol, but to represent the gospel as it was intended. It has made a great difference to me!

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