Shunning?

I read a blog about the amish man who wanted to learn to drive a car and how this gal was helping him. And know that if he pursues it into the future he will be shunned by the Amish church.

Then I remember Pastor Gerry praying at the end of the service, asking God to send us the unsaved, the gays the prostitutes, those with aids, and all kinds of faults, and let us love them and not be prejudice or judging them.

Who are we to judge other people? It is not our place to judge, that is up to God! We are to love. Unconditionally!

This morning a friend in New York had a posting about gays and homosexuality. There was quite a discussion about it. Can they be saved? Will they be able to go to heaven. And it too reminded me that we are not to judge!

In visiting a friend in the assisted living place we got into a discussion about life in general and judging people. She spoke of how hard it is for her to really believe that her husband was saved before he passed away. We know he prayed the prayer, and she said her children said they saw a difference, yet it is hard for her, because she knows how abusive he was verbally to those around him, time and time again. She had lived with his abuse for many years and had never told what was going on in the home. She buffered the abuse so the kids did not get the brunt of it while they were living at home. Yet the pain he caused her was unbelievable! And yet she too said "but,I am not to judge him, perhaps he did see things much differently when I got sick and he was removed from the house since he couldn't. Take care of himself"

So shunning people who do not think and act the way we think they should,? Well I think God wants us to love them regardless and leave things in his hands!
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