Church Is Messy: Loving Our Enemies
Update: 2025-09-24
Description
In today's episode Rick and Svea have a discussion about loving our enemies and hating our enemies.
Topics discussed in this episode:
- 00:00 Intro - A Sunday afternoon gone wrong.
- 04:05 An illustration from Rick's Sunday experience.
- 06:11 Two visions: Love your enemy or hate your enemy.
- 08:23 What does it look like to love your enemy?
- 09:55 Paying a price for loving our enemy is a testing point. Not engaging in hero worship when someone says they forgive their enemy.
- 14:42 The pressure to define "who is my brother" and "who is my enemy" devolves into who is human and who is subhuman and often taints our behaviors toward "others." It's not good for anybody.
- 18:24 Looking to history to examine crimes against humanity or a particular group of people always begins with using dehumanizing language.
- 19:07 Svea describes an incident she had from the previous week.
- 27:09 Jesus gave us a simple (not always easy) handhold: pray for your enemies.
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