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Acceptance VS. Love

 Tonight it has been placed on my heart to share what to some I am sure will be a controversial message. In our world today the message of equality and acceptance has become widespread, now right off the bat I'm not saying this message is inherently wrong. Equality and acceptance are wonderful things in the correct context. Unfortunately the world has done an awesome job of removing biblical context from most situations. I hear a lot of Christians and churches preaching acceptance, accepting people as they are.... I think the words are getting mixed up though, where we are promoting acceptance we should be promoting love. Love and acceptance are two very different things in which I feel have become one in a lot of churches and even Chdiayian minds. The Bible calls us to love one another as ourselves, we are called to love our enemy and we are called to love people no matter the circumstance, their belief etc. There is a fine line between love and acceptance though. We can love people without accepting the choices they make, their lifestyles etc. This is where I am going to get controversial, we are called to love not accept. Why are we as Christians preaching that God accepts people just as they are when this is not biblical, God LOVES people just as they are, he does not accept them. God loves his people, his creation way too much to just leave them where he found them in sin. A loving father can't watch his child wasting away and just heave him/her there. I am a strong believer in loving on all those we come in contact with however we have got to stop accepting and preaching that God is just accepting them as they are. God loves us despite are sin, he loves us enough to walk with us and change us from the inside out. By preaching this acceptance we aren't giving people the opportunity to truly know Christ, trult know change or for God to make a change in them. God does not accept sin, he loves his people. God will never be okay with sin and he won't stop loving his people. Going forward can we please start preaching love and not acceptance? I am going to be blunt... acceptance isn't getting anyone saved, love is. Acceptance is taking people further from the cross further from the feet of Jesus, acceptance is making them think living a life of sin is okay and it's not. Love is patient, it is kind and if you have experienced the love from the father like I have, it convicts. Conviction is love because God loves us enough not to leave us in a place, in a life, in a situation that will end up destroying us. I want those around us to know Christ and they won't come to know him through acceptance they will come to know him through love. 

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