Pope style: the miscarriage post and loving people like Jesus
- How should believers share hard theological truths with grieving people?
Boova shares that a Facebook post wrecked him: friends suffering miscarriages after fertility treatments were told by another commenter that their unborn children are in hell. The hosts condemn leading with condemnation instead of good news, comparing it to Christ's treatment of religious elites versus outsiders ('want mercy not sacrifice,' the root of 'evangelical' being euangelion, good news). One host tells how Romans 7:9 ('I was alive apart from the law... sin sprang to life and I died') changed his view on unborn children the day before his own miscarriage. Boova's actual Pope-style advice lands as a mock threat: 'Shut your mouth or I will shut it.'
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Dear LFTP: the baby sprinkle letter
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