Sin messes people up, twists them, breaks them, fills them with delusion, in fact its the ultimate delusion. If, for some reason, a person is at the moment more sane than another, less caught up in darkness, they need to deal gently with those in a darker place. First because they understand their own sinfulness and take care to realize that even their best intentions may be touched by this. Second because they know from their own experience that the confusion, the sickness, and the pain of sin may be so deep that what seems obvious to the observer may not be clear at all to the one being observed. Sanity may have to be restored a little at a time, a process wrapped in grace and administered with a spirit of gentleness to avoid the cure being worse than the disease.
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The Beautiful Path 
Well said. Ironically I just did a podcast on the same topic. The healing of souls cannot be done “by the book” but with the heart.
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I should probably start listening to your podcast. I’m just not a pod cast guy. That being said I’ve been and am a sinner and the longer I live the more I see its devastation and how little a blunt object works to help people through.
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I understand, I’m actually not a podcast person either. I think I have listened to maybe 5 podcasts and 3 of those were before I started mine to see what kinds of things other podcasters were doing so I didn’t duplicate their stuff. I don’t own an mp3 player or ipod.
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