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<\/p>\nHow to love people as Jesus did?<\/p>\n
#1\u00a0Don\u2019t judge.<\/p>\n
Jesus told us that we were to love others. It is repeated often in the letters to the Churches.<\/p>\n
How do you do that? It is difficult. Here are a few of the things I see in Jesus\u2019 life. The list is not exhaustive. (More in subsequent post)<\/p>\n
1. Don\u2019t judge people.\u00a0Don\u2019t judge their actions, attitudes or beliefs. Their standards may be different from yours.\u00a0Many of\u00a0those \u201cright or wrong\u201d things are set by our culture as much as anything else.\u00a0Of course, we all think our list of right or wrong is the right one and the only one based on the Bible.\u00a0That is questionable.\u00a0In America today we have multiple cultures, even among white middle-class\u00a0Christians, there is a great variety of cultures\u00a0and many lists of right and wrong.<\/p>\n
Not judging people does not mean we agree with them\u00a0or even approve. It is simply giving them the right to chose. Jesus gives them that\u00a0right. I simply chose to live by my standards and give them the right to live by theirs.\u00a0You are free to make your own moral choices. You should. But you cannot force your moral choices on others.<\/p>\n
I remember in college (Early 60\u2019s in a Baptist school) we had a Professor from France. As you would expect, He loved his wine. Of course, the administration went bonkers. He was equally upset by all the men at church who stepped outside to have a smoke between\u00a0Sunday<\/span><\/span>\u00a0School and church. He said they would be kicked out of church for smoking if they were Baptist in France. He only taught one year.<\/p>\n Besides, Jesus said we would be judged with the same standard we judge others. If you are like me you need a lot of Grace. Treat people with Grace.\u00a0Those outside the church often see us as very judgmental.\u00a0If we reflect Jesus, we will become known as people of love and acceptance\u00a0which is what many in our society are looking for.\u00a0Jesus accepted people with very different moral standards than his own. He accepted people of different cultures. He lived and had much of his ministry in the more Gentile (non-Jewish) influenced section of his country. You never get the sense that those he associated with felt rejected or judged.\u00a0 You don\u2019t invite someone to a party if you think they are going to take the fun out of the party.<\/p>\n The only people Jesus tended to judge seems to be the Pharisees who were the religious leaders of the time. He opposed them because they seem to have been hypocritical and placed religious burdens on people that kept them away from God rather than bringing them closer to God. Most of their \u201creligion\u201d was for show and extremely legalistic.\u00a0 He also seemed to have really got upset with the people in charge of Temple worship who made a profit from religion. Reflecting on those two things should throw fear into a lot of us \u201creligious\u201d people.<\/p>\n To love people as Jesus did become known as a loving accepting person rather than one who is judgmental.<\/p>\n People seemed to have been changed more by Jesus\u2019 accepting, non-judgmental attitude than by condemnation. He always tried to lift them up and show them the possibility of a better life rather than condemning them and pushing them down.<\/p>\n When we judge people we are reminding them of the negatives in their life.\u00a0 When we lovingly accept people we are reminding them of what they can become.\u00a0 Most of us spend too much time in the darkness of guilt.\u00a0 We need someone to remind us that we can become more than we are at this point in our existence.\u00a0\u00a0 We need to be reminded that we are not defined by our past actions but by our potential. How to love people as Jesus did? #1\u00a0Don\u2019t judge. Jesus told us that we were to love others. It is repeated often in the letters to the Churches. How do you do that? It is difficult. Here are a few of the things I see in Jesus\u2019 life. The list is not exhaustive. 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\nJudging someone causes them to wilt.\u00a0 Love and acceptance helps them bloom.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"