Trinity Talks Podcast

010 | Empathizing Honestly


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Allie Stuckey is known by some as "the conservative millennial." She, like many, weighed in recently on how our country, in particular Christians, are responding to the riots occurring in some of the major cities in response to the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis Police Officer.

Here is what she wrote,

"What we hear is that black Americans are targeted by white police officers. That there is systemic racism in teh police system. That, as Lebron James said, black people are being hunted by white people. And Christians repeat these talking points because we want to be empathetic. We want to "mourn with those who mourn." But compassion at the expense of truth is not compassion. You are not loving people, you are lying to them. This is a sin (Colossians 3:9)

Colossians 3:9 says, "Don't lie to each other, for you have stripped off your old sinful nature and all its wicked deeds."

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