Republican at a Prayer Breakfast Jokes About Her Shacking Up

I agree.

And I agree with not answering a fool according to their folly.

I expect Trump to be crude, to curse, to insult. I am not offended. I expect politicians to say unChristian things. I am not offended.

If in question will identify when they are wrong. I have made such explanations in my church.

But they do not offend me. I am not a part of their world.

 

I am not showing you anything. Not sure what you mean here.

I am saying that Christians should not be offended do easily.

Look at how many Christians supported Trump regardless of his speech. Look at how many Christians suffered ridicule under other Christians for expressing how his language was sinful.

There is no reason to be offended. We were at one time that way. Christ changed us. But He did not save us to be offended by others who engage in our past behavior.

1 Corinthians 13:4–5 Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered,

 

Well....in DC they could be considered married. In SC, they wouldn't.

The point, however, is that if a Christian is so offended by the world what does that say of the Christian who was one time a part of that world?

We should be offended by sin in our own life. We should be speaking out against sin in our congregation.

But if we are going to be offended by a crude joke a politician told at a political event then something is wrong.

 

Then you will live a life of being offended.

I am grateful that Jesus did not live that way but had fellowship with sinners. He even died for sinners. And He saved me when I was a sinner.

 

I agree here.

Christians will interact with sinners in the world, but we should not with Christians who openly sin. This is an important passage when dealing with our current cultural climate. We don't judge those outside the church but those within. And we exercise church discipline. Otherwise our churches stop being a witness.

 

I pray not.

We need to follow the example of Christ when dealing with the world.

He was not offended by the World, but came to save them from their sin. We should not be offended when politicians, comedians, actors, or others in the world tell crude jokes.

We should judge this in the church, but not in the world. Even in the church we are not to be offended (that is also translated "provoked"...and we are commanded not to be offended).

What makes the disobedience of a politician telling course jokes or living together out of marriage worse than the disobedience of a Christian on a Christian board disobeying 1 Corinthians 13 being offended?

This just does not make sense to me. We should guard against all sin. We should not engage with Christians living a sinful life. But how does reacting to sin with sin equate to any type of good?

 

If you mean legally, it depends on the state.