Character Assassination

Do we like it when atheists tell us that they can't believe in Christ because the crusades killed a lot of people in His name?

Isn't it unpleasant when JWs and LDS tell us that the doctrine of the Trinity was decided as orthodoxy by majority opinion in a vote, instead of "the truth"?

We sin sometimes as Christians and we politely ask the watching world not to expect us to be perfect. We're still going to sin but righteousness comes by faith, anyway, not by what we do, which is quite reassuring and the strength of our very message!

Free grace just barely escaped from the clutches of error in evangelical Christianity. They take things too far to grant acceptance by actions instead of faith. They act as if there is no place for grace.

Do we need to be reminded of the mess made by Calvinism's license in character assassination?

This is a kind of trouble that we would be well without.

If free grace wants to lead the way in teaching others that we are made righteous by faith and that we have grace for when we make mistakes, then we will need to model it in the way we treat each other, first and foremost.

To say that we can judge a position as false by means of knowing of a few, specific sins of some of its members, is unfair and untrue. Outward behavior is not necessarily a reflection of an inward reality.

Let's concentrate: what is it that we are truly judged by? Disobedience to the law, or, not trusting in Jesus?

I believe focusing on the answer to this question will help us show our brothers how to find a clear conscience in this community.