The church and alcoholism

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choliks said:
If they remain outcasts and marginalized, even if they have done the worst evil in the world, they deserve even the slightest bit of our compassion. If not then we are no worse than those who deny Christ.
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I believe it was in Matthew that Jesus commands us to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, visit the imprisoned, ect; nowhere in there does he specify “oh yah, but only if they follow Me, otherwise you can ignore them”. We help them because we recognize their intrinsic nature as Children of God, and as a person whom God loves unconditionally (even if they are rebuffing God). We cannot love (agape) the Father if we do not love (agape) all His children (that is what it is like to be perfect as God is perfect).
 
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I believe it was in Matthew that Jesus commands us to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, visit the imprisoned, ect; nowhere in there does he specify “oh yah, but only if they follow Me, otherwise you can ignore them”. We help them because we recognize their intrinsic nature as Children of God, and as a person whom God loves unconditionally (even if they are rebuffing God). We cannot love (agape) the Father if we do not love (agape) all His children (that is what it is like to be perfect as God is perfect).
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In the Constitutions of the Franciscans of Life it says

To live in service of the Gospel of Life

**25. Like St. Francis, we want to be disciples by imitating the Master. The Master never turned people away. Instead, he turned their lives around. **

Fraternally,

Br. JR, FFV 🙂
 
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