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So it’s been a few days…so much for that rant I gave earlier about posting frequently to keep my readers checking back often huh?

Well today was, to say the least, a busy day. Today was the momentous ground-breaking for the new chapel here at Bethany Bible College. And you’ll never guess who was here for it! Ok maybe you will, and for all you Wesleyans you’ll be excited to know that John Maxwell was here. Yeah I have to say that I was kind of skeptical of him at first because people seem to treat him like he’s part of the Trinity or something in the Wesleyan church. But I was really impressed by his speaking abilities and his message too. It was a pretty long day for me too considering I was doing food services for good ol’ Aramark from 6am to 10pm. But enough about my boring life and onto a topic that can be discussed.

Compassion and understanding. Two characteristics that some would attribute to all Christians because we are supposed to have both. So why is it that it seems to be that quite often that this compassion only comes when we’re talking about non-Christians? We often hold our brothers and sisters in Christ to a higher standard and aren’t really willing to have the same level of compassion and understanding when one of our brothers or sisters fall. Why is that? Is that right? It’s often argued that we can hold each other to a higher standard because of the fact that we are supposed to know better. But just because we know better doesn’t mean that we don’t struggle with temptation any less then non-Christians. Thoughts?