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$\"\"$ <\/a>What are some stones in your world that have to be tossed down? Are you a stone thrower? Or, are you like Jesus who said \u201cNeither do I condemn you.\u201d
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Rubel says he meets folks like this woman every day, folks who have become cynical by the way they\u2019ve been treated, sometimes by the church.<\/p>\n

What this text says is that whatever you have done can be forgiven. The real issue is not their past sin but the future with God. But many in the church tell a different story. They tell folks that they have to clean up first; or that even if they do clean up they\u2019ll still be second class.<\/p>\n

Some are far more afraid of church folk than bar folk. Church folks throw stones of gossip, and stones of rejection and stones of withdrawal, and stones of judgment. Those stones are of no use to Jesus. The stones were dropped and there was Jesus, \u201cNeither do I condemn you.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Jesus, not church folk, is the one who talks truth, and he said \u201cNeither do I condemn you.\u201d The stone throwers walked away. Jesus offered grace and grace turned the woman from a sinner to a saint, from rejected to welcomed. The stone throwers shower the woman with a world that does not love, but Jesus is the one who loves.<\/p>\n

The way to convince folks of God\u2019s love is to tell the Story of God\u2019s love for us. For those caught red-handed in sin the solution is to tell the truth and to turn to Jesus for mercy. He\u2019s standing there, without stones in his hands. He bore the stones. They\u2019re in a pile behind him.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"