Best of Breakpoint 2022: How Should We Pray for the Russians?
Breakpoint
Colson Center
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🗓️ 30 December 2022
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Summary
Jesus' words about loving our enemies remain as true and trying as ever. But the radical love to which Christ calls us shouldn't be confused with squishy emotion or moral vacuity.
This Point was originally published on March 25, 2022.
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| 0:00.0 | This is John Stone Street from Breakpoint. |
| 0:03.6 | This week on Breakpoint, we're looking back at some of the best commentaries of 2022. |
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| 0:33.3 | Here's Breakpoint. |
| 0:35.0 | What does it mean to love our enemies? |
| 0:36.8 | But the Colson Center on John Stone Street with a point. |
| 0:39.6 | When we think of Christ called love our enemies, we often think of work rivals or political |
| 0:43.5 | opponents. |
| 0:44.5 | It's not easy to love those enemies, but it's also not impossible. |
| 0:47.4 | What does it mean to love evil doers, especially in times of war, evil and violence? |
| 0:52.3 | We respect Breakprotesters arrested for standing up to Putin. |
| 0:55.8 | To pity teenagers who are conscripted into a fight, they neither saw it nor understand. |
| 1:00.2 | But are we really called to love Vladimir Putin and his cronies, or the Russian troops rejoicing |
| 1:04.6 | in their conquest, or the talking heads in Moscow calling that the war expand into Eastern |
| 1:09.2 | Europe? |
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