Sermon: Understanding Evangelical Christianity
Invocation: A wise person once said to me, you get to choose how to live, and there are basically two choices, you can choose to be right or you can choose to be peaceful. The more I have reflected on this the more clear it has become that choosing to be right is about ego, while choosing to be peaceful is about wisdom. Peace be with you. Let us join together in song. Prayer: How can we become more compassionate? It is helpful to think of a generic situation where you are engaged with another person. You perceive their actions, and from this perception you normally confer onto them motives and thoughts. It is by these motives and thoughts, which we have imagined, that we determine how we will react to their action. One form of compassion happens when we are clear and honest about the actions of others, but kind and generous when we infer thought and motive. There is an expression for this in English, it is called ‘giving the benefit of the doubt.’ One way to cultivate our capacity for ...