Vertebrae

When you know, for certain, people are being mistreated, it’s a difficult tension to manage. When do you speak up? When do you work behind the scenes? Often you feel that you’re not doing enough, and sometimes it feels that you’re trying to do too much. It’s a tension that I’ve walked with for the past 10 years of being in formal ministry, on staff at a local non-denominational Christian Church.    Much like a marriage that you know is falling apart… How do you minister to both sides while not betraying the dignity and inherent worth of either party? How do you love people through a divorce? How do you love a parent that you know is mistreating their children? How do you “show up” for friends that you know are doing something wrong? How do you love people that have the right motives but the wrong facts?    Seeing Christ in both sides and articulating that, but also not being afraid to speak truth to the lies that both sides believe… And by God’s grace, eliminating the concept of “sides” altogether.    After C