[TruthTalk] to be fair

[Debbie Sawczak]

I guess the question that would be asked of John is, How do we account for people who say they are trusting God's gracious reconciliation, but don't appear (that necessarily means, "don't appear to us") to be interested in living in that reconciliation at all? I am sure that nobody on TT is really (non-rhetorically) accusing John of being such a person.   I said what my own answer would be if I were challenged as being such a person: I do not concern myself with [other people's] (or my own) judgment. I trust God to complete the work begun in me; he has until the Day of Jesus Christ (and may well do a hefty passel of it right then!). But that's because I am confident of my own relationship to Christ and my desire to live it out. What do we say about other people? Do we just decline to make a judgment? Is that a cop-out? Do we stoutly trust that they are in a process of growth whose germ we cannot yet see? Or do we conclude that they are in defiance of the ground of their own existence and therefore self-destructing? And if so, can a similarity be acknowledged between that and David's position?    Debbie