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Ziggy · Jun 27, 2022

BREAKING: Supreme Court Affirms Religious Liberty, Rules In Favor Of Public High School Football Coach Punished For Praying After Games

BREAKING: Supreme Court Affirms Religious Liberty, Rules In Favor Of Public High School Football Coach Punished For Praying After Games
TIM MEADS JUNE 27, 2022

On Monday morning, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in Kennedy v. Bremerton School District that a public high school football coach in the state of Washington had his First Amendment rights violated after he was placed on administrative leave by the school district and banned from participating in the football program for praying on the field after games in view of students.

“SCOTUS sides with a high school football coach in a First Amendment case about prayer at the 50-yard-line,” SCOTUS Blog tweeted Monday morning. “In a 6-3 ruling, SCOTUS says the public school district violated the coach’s free speech and free exercise rights when it barred him from praying on the field after games.” The case was ruled along ideological lines.

SCOTUS sides with a high school football coach in a First Amendment case about prayer at the 50-yard-line. In a 6-3 ruling, SCOTUS says the public school district violated the coach’s free speech and free exercise rights when it barred him from praying on the field after games.

The majority opinion was authored by Justice Neil Gorsuch.

“Here, a government entity sought to punish an individual for engaging in a brief, quiet, personal religious observance doubly protected by the Free Exercise and Free Speech Clauses of the First Amendment. And the only meaningful justification the government offered for its reprisal rested on a mistaken view that it had a duty to ferret out and suppress,” Gorsuch wrote. “Religious observances even as it allows comparable secular speech. The Constitution neither mandates nor tolerates that kind of discrimination.”

Joseph Kennedy, a Marine veteran, was an assistant football coach for the Bremerton High School (BHS) varsity team in 2008 when he started a tradition of kneeling and praying after games. Some students later volunteered to join him. In 2015, a school administrator addressed the issue with the coach after an opposing team complained. After an investigation, Kennedy was later placed on administrative leave and barred from “participating in any capacity in the BHS football program.”

Non-profit conservative legal organization First Liberty Institute took up Kennedy’s case in 2016, and lost in both district court and at the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. In 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court also denied the request, but four justices – Alito, Thomas, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh – issued a statement expressing serious concern about how the school district and the lower courts had understood the First Amendment rights of public school teachers.

The Supreme Court sent the case back to U.S. District Judge Ronald Leighton, who again sided with the school district in 2020, as did the 9th Circuit in mid-2021. Attorneys with First Liberty and Kirkland & Ellis refiled the case at the U.S. Supreme Court in September 2021 and the high court agreed in January to hear it.

Ziggy · Jun 27, 2022

50th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade
50th Yard Line.

Is 50 a Jubilee Year?
Hugs

LearningToLetGo · Jun 27, 2022

Thank you for posting this article. Victories such as this are good but tenuous. Until the culture at large changes these wins can easily be swept away with another appointment or vote.

Now is the time to embrace victory with love. Never gloat. Never appear mean spirited. Always show kindness and compassion towards those with whom you disagree. We need to work extra hard to dispel our perception as being judgemental towards others since that is possibly the greatest stumbling block non believers have when the topic of prayer is raised.

Ziggy · Jun 27, 2022

I don't know if rejoicing over victories is considered gloating.. I guess it could be.
It's in the mean-spirited or the sincere where I believe the difference lies.
I am sincerely happy that the Law of the land is finally being upheld.
The lawsuit wasn't brought by those who are for freedom of speech, but rather by those who oppose it.
Whether it's Freedom of Speech or Religious Freedom to Pray, it is still a victory whether religious or secular.
I hear you..
We are not the ones judging them and bringing accusations however,
We stand in defence of our God given rights and Constitution of the Land.
Hugs

amadeus · Jun 27, 2022

Ziggy said:
50th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade
50th Yard Line.

Is 50 a Jubilee Year?
Hugs

is 2022 a Jubilee Year? A few days ago, I was married for 50 years. Does that count?

"What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?" Rom 8:31

LearningToLetGo · Jun 27, 2022

Ziggy said:
I don't know if rejoicing over victories is considered gloating.. I guess it could be.

I wasn't accusing you. I meant this in a purely general sense. It's important to remember that perception is oftentimes the driver of reality. For those to whom Christianity equals oppression, rulings such as this will be seen as encroaching tyranny. I know, it's backwards but that's how many do see it. Knowing this we need to be extra sensitive to show love and compassion. It's hard, but we're all God's children and he loves us all equally. You'll recall the parable of the lost sheep, how the shepherd will leave the ninety-nine to find and retrieve the one.

Taken · Jun 27, 2022

amadeus said:
is 2022 a Jubilee Year? A few days ago, I was married for 50 years. Does that count?

"What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?" Rom 8:31

Happy Anniversary! May God Bless you and your wife abundantly.

Glory to God,
Taken

Taken · Jun 27, 2022

I taught my children any time, any place they CAN and SHOULD pray to God.

It was a misnomer perpetuated BY the Media, and Public at Large, that Prayers At School, Prayers In Schools are prohibited.

Prayer In Schools were Prohibited to BE REQUIRED.
“Some” Children and “some” Teachers, all across this Nation HAVE Continued to PRAY in Schools, at School events, WITHOUT anyone being REQUIRED to participate.

If people do NOT exercise their RIGHTS, they have no Rights.

amigo de christo · Jun 27, 2022

Taken said:
I taught my children any time, any place they CAN and SHOULD pray to God.

It was a misnomer perpetuated BY the Media, and Public at Large, that Prayers At School, Prayers In Schools are prohibited.

Prayer In Schools were Prohibited to BE REQUIRED.
“Some” Children and “some” Teachers, all across this Nation HAVE Continued to PRAY in Schools, at School events, WITHOUT anyone being REQUIRED to participate.

If people do NOT exercise their RIGHTS, they have no Rights.

amigo de christo · Jun 27, 2022

amadeus said:
is 2022 a Jubilee Year? A few days ago, I was married for 50 years. Does that count?

"What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?" Rom 8:31

You were married the year i was born . In fact i was about three months old and still in diapers . Yep
fifty years flies by indeed . BUT WHO can measure the SPAN OF ETERNITY . For it has no end .
JESUS IS OUR HOPE , OUR REDEEMER and our salvation . This life is as the dew
on a west texas summer in the morning during a heat wave , it appears but for a second and then vanishes away .
BUT ETERNAL LIFE IS FOREVER and IN JESUS ALONE IS ETERNAL LIFE . Now let all that draws breath both praise and thank the LORD .

amigo de christo · Jun 27, 2022

Ziggy said:
I don't know if rejoicing over victories is considered gloating.. I guess it could be.
It's in the mean-spirited or the sincere where I believe the difference lies.
I am sincerely happy that the Law of the land is finally being upheld.
The lawsuit wasn't brought by those who are for freedom of speech, but rather by those who oppose it.
Whether it's Freedom of Speech or Religious Freedom to Pray, it is still a victory whether religious or secular.
I hear you..
We are not the ones judging them and bringing accusations however,
We stand in defence of our God given rights and Constitution of the Land.
Hugs

Rejoicing any time evil is defeated , IS NOT EVIL at all . WE ought to rejoice when evil is defeated .

Ziggy · Jun 27, 2022

LearningToLetGo said:
I wasn't accusing you. I meant this in a purely general sense. It's important to remember that perception is oftentimes the driver of reality. For those to whom Christianity equals oppression, rulings such as this will be seen as encroaching tyranny. I know, it's backwards but that's how many do see it. Knowing this we need to be extra sensitive to show love and compassion. It's hard, but we're all God's children and he loves us all equally. You'll recall the parable of the lost sheep, how the shepherd will leave the ninety-nine to find and retrieve the one.

Hugs,
I didn't take it as an accusation, I was just weighing the balance of it seen from both sides.
We are living in very high charged emotional turbulent times.
On one side there is a visual depression happening. They hide behind make up, costumes, distortion, hysteria.
I see children that have grown up with no direction, no foundation, no self-control or self respect.
I see adults as if they are children running through the aisles of Toys-R-Us screaming and ranting because they can't have everything they want.
They have no empathy, no remorse, no sense of right or wrong. Chaos. Lawlessness. Anger and hate.
On the other side are those who are striving to stand firm in their principles, their morals. They are pushed back and pushed down for believing in things that are wholesome and good and have been our tradition for centuries.
They are confused, and resolved to hold on to their beliefs in integrity, chivelry, lawfulness, decency.

It is Day and Night. And we have to remember that there is one God who created both in the beginning.
The only difference between the two is the Light. And it's our duty to bring that light to the world.
But I believe the darkness scares us. We don't understand it. It's alien to our very marrow in our bones.
It's not a fear of srength or weekness, it's more a fear of amazement and helplessness.

But we can't stop being joyful and happy, celebrating goodness and kindness and love, because we are afraid we will be ridiculed or we may offend someone.
This joy, this happiness is exactly what they are lacking. These emotions are gifts that we share with each other.
It lifts us up, it makes us strong, it gives us hope.
But they don't have these gifts. They have torments and punishments, victimism (is that a word) , they feel victimized, oppressed, depressed,
injustice, no peace.

I don't believe this is their choice. Somehow it was placed on them by a system that feeds off of innocence and fear and darkness.
Are we as christians willing to bring the light to a world that's gone cold and dark?
And I believe the only way we can do that is to set ourselves as examples.
Patience, endurance, long suffering, kindness.. these have to be more visual and observable than the darkness that is looming over the world.
They have to see something that they want, that they need, that they are lacking, in us.
And the one thing I believe is most important and a good foundation is Hope.

I try to put myself in other people's shoes and walk the walk they are taking.
It goes against my very core beliefs, my understanding, overcoming the fear of looking evil in the face and knowing the true enemy.
It's easier to point a finger and accuse the other, than to stand in the shoes of the accused and recognize the changes needed in oneself.
It's the man in the mirror, syndrome.
But on the other hand, we shouldn't hide behind a bushel, or under a table as not to offend others.
We need to show them what Love looks like.
But you can't show anyone anything if you don't first possess what it is you want to show.

It's a difficult time for both sides. And I believe right now we're in the center of the storm.
Somehow the world and it's reality took a bad turn off the path.
It's up to us to get it back in line.
God willing.

Thank You
Hugs

Ziggy · Jun 27, 2022

amadeus said:
is 2022 a Jubilee Year? A few days ago, I was married for 50 years. Does that count?

"What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?" Rom 8:31

Happy Anniversary!!
Hugs

LearningToLetGo · Jun 27, 2022

Ziggy said:
I don't believe this is their choice. Somehow it was placed on them by a system that feeds off of innocence and fear and darkness.

Ephesians 6:12
For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.

Ziggy said:
It goes against my very core beliefs, my understanding, overcoming the fear of looking evil in the face and knowing the true enemy.
It's easier to point a finger and accuse the other, than to stand in the shoes of the accused and recognize the changes needed in oneself.
It's the man in the mirror, syndrome.
But on the other hand, we shouldn't hide behind a bushel, or under a table as not to offend others.
We need to show them what Love looks like.
But you can't show anyone anything if you don't first possess what it is you want to show.

Well said.

theefaith · Jun 28, 2022

Religious liberty has many meanings

no man is free to choose his own religion

and unlimited rights is a problem as is separation of church from the state

no publisher should have an absolute right to publish unlimited garbage such as porn or other immoral material

Brakelite · Jul 15, 2023

theefaith said:
Religious liberty has many meanings

no man is free to choose his own religion

and unlimited rights is a problem as is separation of church from the state

no publisher should have an absolute right to publish unlimited garbage such as porn or other immoral material

"No man is free to choose his own religion".

That is religious tyranny.

"Separation of the church from the state is a problem".

It is certainly a problem for the church that wants to enforce it's religion on those who would choose another.

True religious liberty is not only freedom from the state to rule the affairs of the church, but also freedom from the church to rule the affairs of the state.
During Jesus' time on earth, Israel was under the terrible yoke of an oppressive occupying power. They had no religious freedom... Rome even decided who would be the high priest. Bribery often decided who Rome chose. Jews who acted as tax collectors for Rome were reviled as collaborators. Yet despite having Simon the zealot amongst his disciples, and likely the rest being very sympathetic with Simon's political and religious desires for freedom, Jesus invited himself to dinner at Matthew's house, sharing that dinner with a number of Matthew's fellow collaborators.
I believe the church needs to seriously rethink it's attitude to what it views as political oppression, and it's response to it, taking Jesus as us example. We are the salt of the earth. We don't add flavor to the world by being separate from it, but by being mingled with it without losing the flavor. And we don't seek to take over government: religious liberty works both ways, not just freedom from state interference in church affairs, but freedom from church in state affairs. History has witnessed both the above, and neither ended well for God's people

Josho · Jul 15, 2023

Ziggy said:
BREAKING: Supreme Court Affirms Religious Liberty, Rules In Favor Of Public High School Football Coach Punished For Praying After Games

BREAKING: Supreme Court Affirms Religious Liberty, Rules In Favor Of Public High School Football Coach Punished For Praying After Games
TIM MEADS JUNE 27, 2022

On Monday morning, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in Kennedy v. Bremerton School District that a public high school football coach in the state of Washington had his First Amendment rights violated after he was placed on administrative leave by the school district and banned from participating in the football program for praying on the field after games in view of students.

“SCOTUS sides with a high school football coach in a First Amendment case about prayer at the 50-yard-line,” SCOTUS Blog tweeted Monday morning. “In a 6-3 ruling, SCOTUS says the public school district violated the coach’s free speech and free exercise rights when it barred him from praying on the field after games.” The case was ruled along ideological lines.

SCOTUS sides with a high school football coach in a First Amendment case about prayer at the 50-yard-line. In a 6-3 ruling, SCOTUS says the public school district violated the coach’s free speech and free exercise rights when it barred him from praying on the field after games.

The majority opinion was authored by Justice Neil Gorsuch.

“Here, a government entity sought to punish an individual for engaging in a brief, quiet, personal religious observance doubly protected by the Free Exercise and Free Speech Clauses of the First Amendment. And the only meaningful justification the government offered for its reprisal rested on a mistaken view that it had a duty to ferret out and suppress,” Gorsuch wrote. “Religious observances even as it allows comparable secular speech. The Constitution neither mandates nor tolerates that kind of discrimination.”

Joseph Kennedy, a Marine veteran, was an assistant football coach for the Bremerton High School (BHS) varsity team in 2008 when he started a tradition of kneeling and praying after games. Some students later volunteered to join him. In 2015, a school administrator addressed the issue with the coach after an opposing team complained. After an investigation, Kennedy was later placed on administrative leave and barred from “participating in any capacity in the BHS football program.”

Non-profit conservative legal organization First Liberty Institute took up Kennedy’s case in 2016, and lost in both district court and at the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. In 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court also denied the request, but four justices – Alito, Thomas, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh – issued a statement expressing serious concern about how the school district and the lower courts had understood the First Amendment rights of public school teachers.

The Supreme Court sent the case back to U.S. District Judge Ronald Leighton, who again sided with the school district in 2020, as did the 9th Circuit in mid-2021. Attorneys with First Liberty and Kirkland & Ellis refiled the case at the U.S. Supreme Court in September 2021 and the high court agreed in January to hear it.

Sounds like SCOTUS has been making some very good decisions lately.

amigo de christo · Jul 15, 2023

Brakelite said:
"No man is free to choose his own religion".

That is religious tyranny.

"Separation of the church from the state is a problem".

It is certainly a problem for the church that wants to enforce it's religion on those who would choose another.

True religious liberty is not only freedom from the state to rule the affairs of the church, but also freedom from the church to rule the affairs of the state.
During Jesus' time on earth, Israel was under the terrible yoke of an oppressive occupying power. They had no religious freedom... Rome even decided who would be the high priest. Bribery often decided who Rome chose. Jews who acted as tax collectors for Rome were reviled as collaborators. Yet despite having Simon the zealot amongst his disciples, and likely the rest being very sympathetic with Simon's political and religious desires for freedom, Jesus invited himself to dinner at Matthew's house, sharing that dinner with a number of Matthew's fellow collaborators.
I believe the church needs to seriously rethink it's attitude to what it views as political oppression, and it's response to it, taking Jesus as us example. We are the salt of the earth. We don't add flavor to the world by being separate from it, but by being mingled with it without losing the flavor. And we don't seek to take over government: religious liberty works both ways, not just freedom from state interference in church affairs, but freedom from church in state affairs. History has witnessed both the above, and neither ended well for God's people

JUST LEARN THE BIBLE and KEEP LEARNING THE BIBLE . KEEP reading the bible .
We dont seek to take over govt . correct .
Beware this co mingle junk though . Our mission is simply this .
TO the lost JESUS MUST BE PREACHED . AND IF FOLKS wont hear the gospel , SHAKEY THE DUST OFF YA FEET .
PLEASE dont forget the second part . I see a death dealing lie that has been dealt to the churches . AND OH YES
even the adventist are under its spell .
IT says GO ye into the world , make friends , talk about what ye have in common . Dont preach , dont teach JESUS
just focus on what ye have in common , IN ORDER to win them to CHRIST . ITS A LIE PARD and its HOW the churches
FALL AWAY .
Paul did not go into the jewish temples with a MINDSET of finding any kind of common ground .
HE PREACHED JESUS and got seriously persecuted for it . BUT SOULS WERE WON .
Todays evangelism came from the DEVIL brakelite . Now you might know that and you might not .
BUT IT DID . Common ground is crap brakelite . say it with me , common ground is A LIE .
I am kind to all , but i dont seek to find out what me and others have in common . PREACH JESUS
or its a waste of time . AND remember JESUS TOO . IF HE corrected error even unto those who invited him to dinner
THEN WE dont sit and laugh and just overlook erros and find common ground AT DINNER .
ITS a lie from hell brakelite and i will have no part of it .
Mens ways are not wiser nor higher than GOD . AND ITS HIGH TIME we learn the biblical pattern IN ALL things .
JUST a real , real , super friendly reminder .

amigo de christo · Jul 15, 2023

Brakelite said:
"No man is free to choose his own religion".

That is religious tyranny.

"Separation of the church from the state is a problem".

It is certainly a problem for the church that wants to enforce it's religion on those who would choose another.

True religious liberty is not only freedom from the state to rule the affairs of the church, but also freedom from the church to rule the affairs of the state.
During Jesus' time on earth, Israel was under the terrible yoke of an oppressive occupying power. They had no religious freedom... Rome even decided who would be the high priest. Bribery often decided who Rome chose. Jews who acted as tax collectors for Rome were reviled as collaborators. Yet despite having Simon the zealot amongst his disciples, and likely the rest being very sympathetic with Simon's political and religious desires for freedom, Jesus invited himself to dinner at Matthew's house, sharing that dinner with a number of Matthew's fellow collaborators.
I believe the church needs to seriously rethink it's attitude to what it views as political oppression, and it's response to it, taking Jesus as us example. We are the salt of the earth. We don't add flavor to the world by being separate from it, but by being mingled with it without losing the flavor. And we don't seek to take over government: religious liberty works both ways, not just freedom from state interference in church affairs, but freedom from church in state affairs. History has witnessed both the above, and neither ended well for God's people

Hey brakelite . i want us to seriously ponder on something .
Do we in the western socities have worse persecutions than the apostels did .
NOPE .
YET I read all their letters . Not a one put their hope in govts or kings of this world .
Nor should we .
Now as the religoins merge only more and more under the mindset that a true christain
just hugs and embraces but dont DARE CORRECT
the true lambs who do so will be persecuted more and more .
I am so sorry so many bought into the line to just find common ground with mormons , catholics and who knows what else
amongst the faiths . And it dont stop there either nor WILL IT . ITs fast moving into find common ground
WITH ALL RELIGOINS .
BIBLE TIME brakelite . The ol ecumincalism you preached out against , ITS FOUND A WAY INTO ALL DENONIMATIONS .
AND IT WILL teach from THEIR PERSPECTIVE . to a baptist it comes in as though its a baptist
to a jw it came in with that mindset , to a SA it came in with their mindest and etc .
TO EVENTUALLY MERGE US ALL AS ONE . AND SOME OF YOU ALL ARE FALLING FOR IT .
NOT ME . I had rather be persecuted , mocked , spit on and hated and even killed than to sit under THIS JUNK most are falling for .
THE GOAL is this BRAKELITE . break down the fundamental core beliefs and replace them with a love
THAT ALL CAN UNITE UNDER , teh WORLD , all religoins , secular too . AND again i am so sorry most are falling for it .
BUT had we known CHRIST and been in our bibles , THAT WOULD NOT HAVE HAPPENED .
THE END TIME DELUSION , the LIE has emerged to now gather the faiths as one and the religoins as one and the world as one .
AND IT is huge on unity and what it calls love . AND its leaven always begins as leaven does . REAL SMALL
BUT BEWARE cause it takes root quickly and will leaven up the place and the peoples big time , IN TIME .

Brakelite · Jul 15, 2023

After Jesus said to shake the dust off your feet, He reminded the disciples...
KJV Matthew 10:16
16 Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
That doesn't mean we are to trust the wolves. It doesn't mean e become a part of their agendas for globalism and ecumenism. It does mean though that those people we are mingling with, (salt is of no use if isolated and left to minister to one another like the Amish) are all loved by Jesus, Who died and redeemed every one of them. It means we are to explain who we are, why we are different, why we believe what we believe, and why we cannot partake of their errors. We cannot do this if they see us as their enemy. They will not understand or even believe we are Christians if we do not act as Christians and walk in the footsteps of Jesus, doing good, being good, and being salt, seasoning their communities. Planting ourselves amongst them means that they will benefit by our presence. They will not benefit by our presence if we stay aloof and distant, preaching at them in a superior self righteous manner from a distance that is bereft of love. Yes, there is a real love, a love that doesn't neglect our neighbours, our workmates, our families. A love that cares deeply for their welfare in this life, and concern for the eternal security and the truth as it is found in Jesus. We can do this without joining their institutions and becoming one in their clubs and organisations.

KJV Acts 10:37-38
37 That word, I say, ye know, which was published throughout all Judaea, and began from Galilee, after the baptism which John preached;
38 How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.

KJV Mark 5:19
19 Howbeit Jesus suffered him not, but saith unto him, Go home to thy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee, and hath had compassion on thee.

KJV Luke 14:12-14
12 Then said he also to him that bade him, When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbours; lest they also bid thee again, and a recompence be made thee.
13 But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind:
14 And thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just.

KJV Isaiah 58:6-12
6 Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?
7 Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
8 Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy rereward.
9 Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity;
10 And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noonday:
11 And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
12 And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.

Amigo, throughout the OT Israel was called upon to be a light to the gentiles, to be witnesses to God's grace and power. But they didn't do that, but became isolationist in their dealings with the nations around about, and in the end succumbed to the idolatry and evil practises of their neighbours, and did even worse themselves to such an extent they became a horror and a byword to even the heathen. By all means speak the truth, but do it in love, demonstrating that you actually care for not only their eternal well-being, but also their present health and happiness. That was the ministry of Jesus. We ought to do no less. And God will give us the power to remain faithful to His trust.

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