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How To Love Your Enemy When Your Enemy’s an Abusive Family Member
How To Love Your Enemy When Your Enemy’s an Abusive Family Member Paul Sadler
Life is complicated. That makes it difficult when you try to apply the Bible simplistically. Everybody knows the command to honour your father and your mother (Exodus 20:12), and Jesus called us to love our enemies (Luke 6:27-28). But what if our enemy is also our abuser? What if the parent we’re called to honour is mistreating or exploiting us? Some say the Christian response is to turn the other cheek. Others follow the recent explosion in articles advocating that you cut off all the toxic people in your life. The…
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