How Should We Respond When a Church Member Commits a Hate Crime?

Virtues

How Should We Respond When a Church Member Commits a Hate Crime?

25 min

Virtues

How Should We Respond When a Church Member Commits a Hate Crime?

25 min

Episode 665 Show Notes

From the Show

Jesus himself made it absolutely clear where the problem is–where sin lies. He says, “it comes from our hearts.” Too often we fail to realize that the problem, the issue that we need to deal with first and foremost isn’t “out there,” it isn’t in other people made in the image of God. It’s right here. In our own hearts. In the church there is sometimes rhetoric that is always pointing the finger “out there,” making it seem as though, in this case, women are the problem. There can be language that is used in the church at times that contributes to this ideology that we need to fight against.

–Adriel Sanchez

How Should We Respond When a Church Member Commits a Hate Crime?

Questions in this Episode

  1. 1. What is the correct mode of baptism?

2. What does putting my trust in Jesus look like? How can I know if I am truly a Christian?

3. Were the saints in the Old Testament saved by works of the law?

4. How do we pray for non-believing friends?

5. How should the church respond when church members commit hate crimes? Is this something that sinners just do or is there something that the church can do to prevent these types of things from happening?

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Adriel Sanchez is the pastor of North Park Presbyterian Church (PCA) in San Diego, CA. He received his theological training from Westminster Seminary California and serves as host of Core Christianity. Adriel is the author of Praying with Jesus and, most recently, Why We Worship: Experiencing Heaven on Earth at Church. He and his wife, Ysabel, have six children.

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