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Does God Love Child Molestors?

April 13, 2007

For the Christian, the obvious answer is yes (if you are scandalized by that answer welcome to the gospel!), but I wonder how ready we are to deal with the immediate implication this has for those who honor Jesus as Lord of their lives – that we are to love them as well.

I just ran across an article this morning about a church near San Diego where a convicted child molestor, with complete transparence and willingness to follow a few guidelines, is seeking to be welcomed. It’s sad to me that there is even a stir over this. Welcoming people like Mark Pliska, the man in question, ought to be the very sort of thing that defines followers of Christ. I don’t mean to belittle the rightful hesitancy parents might have who care for the children, but the fact of the matter is, if we can’t find ways to embrace and include those that the rest of the world would just assume shun, we have lost part of what it means to be God’s people.

Out of Ur ran an article here.
The original article cam from the New York Times.

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