Comments on: Jesus Christ, Lord of Empathy http://ceruleansanctum.com/2006/11/jesus-christ-lord-of-empathy.html Looking for the 1st century Church in 21st century America Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:37:15 +0000 hourly 1 By: Ramesh Kumarhttp://ceruleansanctum.com/2006/11/jesus-christ-lord-of-empathy.html#comment-49908 Ramesh Kumar Wed, 01 Jun 2011 14:08:50 +0000 http://ceruleansanctum.com/2006/11/jesus-christ-lord-of-empathy.html#comment-49908 Love as empathy is the love that Jesus talks about. This love is the supreme emotion and the first step of loving is to look at someone without reaction, until you begin to empathize. The other's mind resonates in yours and you become empathically one with the other. There 'your self' disappears. Your brain becomes a sensitive receiver of other's psychological states. Relationship characterised by empathic fusion with others is the basis of creative social development. Love your neighbour. Love thy enemy. Then your self ceases to exist Then you enter the Kingdom of Heaven Love as empathy is the love that Jesus talks about. This love is the supreme emotion and the first step of loving is to look at someone without reaction, until you begin to empathize. The other’s mind resonates in yours and you become empathically one with the other. There ‘your self’ disappears. Your brain becomes a sensitive receiver of other’s psychological states. Relationship characterised by empathic fusion with others is the basis of creative social development.
Love your neighbour. Love thy enemy.
Then your self ceases to exist
Then you enter the Kingdom of Heaven

]]> By: Peytonhttp://ceruleansanctum.com/2006/11/jesus-christ-lord-of-empathy.html#comment-12282 Peyton Mon, 20 Nov 2006 16:52:38 +0000 http://ceruleansanctum.com/2006/11/jesus-christ-lord-of-empathy.html#comment-12282 <blockquote>Overlooking sin? No.</blockquote> The idealism of empathy falls apart right here! If I can find some "great sin" in you, then I do not have to be empathetic toward you. If you are a Liberal, a Universalist, or, gasp, a Roman Catholic, I have the right to insist that you change. I have the right not to understand you. Last night was the Community Thanksgiving Service. Pastors from five of the eight local congregations (not <em>churches</em>) participated. I hope that some day all eight will participate, so that the local church is embodied. Because is is scandalous that we workship together separately.

Overlooking sin? No.

The idealism of empathy falls apart right here! If I can find some “great sin” in you, then I do not have to be empathetic toward you. If you are a Liberal, a Universalist, or, gasp, a Roman Catholic, I have the right to insist that you change. I have the right not to understand you.
Last night was the Community Thanksgiving Service. Pastors from five of the eight local congregations (not churches) participated. I hope that some day all eight will participate, so that the local church is embodied. Because is is scandalous that we workship together separately.

]]> By: David Rigginshttp://ceruleansanctum.com/2006/11/jesus-christ-lord-of-empathy.html#comment-12143 David Riggins Fri, 17 Nov 2006 15:56:41 +0000 http://ceruleansanctum.com/2006/11/jesus-christ-lord-of-empathy.html#comment-12143 Something occurred to me as I was making some revisions on a study of Jonah. The whole purpose of Jonah's exercise in humility was because of the compassion of God. We are so used to the bloodthirsty God of the Old Testement that we forget the compassion God has for the lost. In this case, the lost city of Ninevah. "Should I not be concerned?" Asked God of Jonah. Jesus said to his disciples that it was His job to do the will of the One who sent Him. God's will is to comfort the lost. In Isaiah 58 God asks, "Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke? Is it not to share your food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter-- when you see the naked, to clothe him, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?" Do those lines sound familiar? Those actions, according to Jesus in Matthew 25, seperate the saved from the lost. Something occurred to me as I was making some revisions on a study of Jonah. The whole purpose of Jonah’s exercise in humility was because of the compassion of God. We are so used to the bloodthirsty God of the Old Testement that we forget the compassion God has for the lost. In this case, the lost city of Ninevah. “Should I not be concerned?” Asked God of Jonah. Jesus said to his disciples that it was His job to do the will of the One who sent Him. God’s will is to comfort the lost. In Isaiah 58 God asks, “Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke? Is it not to share your food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter– when you see the naked, to clothe him, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?”

Do those lines sound familiar? Those actions, according to Jesus in Matthew 25, seperate the saved from the lost.

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