This is how i am. Some people are strong on compassion. Others are strong on truth. We all have different roles to play. We are all part of one body and serve different functions, as the bible explains. I just so happen to be a part of the body that regularly gets criticized for the role i have been given. If you don't like and can't appreciate this idea the bible makes clear, and accept that some people have different roles, and don't care for my role, there is an ignore feature available. Feel free to use it as i refuse to fuss with you over this.
And, to really be honest, it's amazing how constantly beat down i feel from other Christians who look down on me for the role i have been given by God, while at the same time preaching i need to show more compassion. Yours is the kind of attitude that has caused me to repeatedly come close to quitting CC.
Hey Ugly.. I bet if you change your name to something sweeter, your words would come off better
(kidding btw)
You do know, if you have been called of God to preach the truth (I have the same gifting as well..) then you also know He says to speak the truth in love..Love is explained in action in 1 Corinthians 13:4..etc..
I do totally agree there is time that truth can often be harsh.. and seem harsh...and I think the situations that call for that are a little bit different than the 16 year old playing with the ouija board (Which I do take seriously btw)..
also remember that most of the time, there was some kind of known relationship between the prophet and those he spoke to ..but if there was not... you become like Jeremiah...who begins lamenting that God asked him to speak but people wanted to stone him..
May I suggest that the way that some took what you said to the young person was kind of like you ripped the board out of her hand and slapped her for playing with it..instead of taking it out of her hands and giving her something else
which is what Christ would do..
anyway.. take what is said here to GOD who didn't give you that gift for yourself but for others..
..chew up the meat, spit out the bones..check your heart and ask for Wisdom as GOd gives freely..
I must say that I also have been known not to have compassion about truth..before I went through the things I did that broke me down completely and totally..down in the pit..
when I came back up..God taught me compassion, grace but to still speak the truth..in love
and to know when to speak it harshly
(rebuke as opposed to reproof
blessings beautiful child of GOD
(I like that better than UGLY)