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It is always good to remember (and I mean many times each day!) that we are all sinners. \u00a0It devolves so easily into a religious platitude, but it is the undeniable truth of Scripture.<\/strong><\/p>\n I may not struggle with a particular sin which is a wonderful mercy of God to me. \u00a0Unfortunately, this can make me unduly harsh with others who do struggle with that sin.<\/strong><\/p>\n One of the best antidotes I’ve applied when I sense my unrighteous judgment taking over (because there is a righteous one) is to remember areas where I am probably more tempted than many Christians. \u00a0It is humbling. \u00a0And it is healing. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n As a person who has the gift of discernment focusing on my own sin brings a much greater level of patience and love when I am in acute disagreement with someone.<\/strong><\/p>\n I am not going to name names, but will say I have had many wonderful and mutually respectful conversations with various people over the plagiarism issue. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Though my own perspective has not changed, I can say my many conversations have been truly free of rancor, name-calling, and straw men. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n What a tribute to God’s great generosity!<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It is always good to remember (and I mean many times each day!) that we are all sinners. \u00a0It devolves so easily into a religious platitude, but it is the undeniable truth of Scripture. I may not struggle with a particular sin which is a wonderful mercy of God to me. \u00a0Unfortunately, this can make […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2868"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2875,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2868\/revisions\/2875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}