Ympathy Embodied in Jesus

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Ympathy is a deep sense of fellow feeling, of the sense of stepping into one's shoes and feeling what the other does. In this passage, jesus is presented as a high priest who is actually fully able to ympathize. That extended to the human the whole human race. And so as christians, if we are to image and reflect jesus and the incarnation, the incarnate one, i think we have to embrace this. We have to figure out a way and work. It's going to be imperfect. It'sgoing to be halting, because we're we're fallen beings on the way. But we're going to have to figure it out

In a special Christmas episode, David French and Curtis Chang talk about the ultimate act of empathy (God becoming human) and the somewhat surprising debate going on in certain corners of the evangelical church; the idea that empathy can be a sin. How far should we go to understand another’s pain? Does empathy require moral agreement? Is our empathy sometimes selective, reserved for those we agree with and withheld from those we don’t?

David and Curtis also dig into some reader mail for a fascinating discussion of the issue of abortion and some surprising realities that may show why pro-life Christians should look beyond the mere legal rules established under Roe v. Wade.

Show Notes:

-Joe Rigney: The Enticing Sin of Empathy

-The French Press: The American Crisis of Selective Empathy

-The French Press: Satanic Pregnancies, Explained

-C.S. Lewis: The Screwtape Letters (Amazon)

-Kate Shellnutt: Bethlehem Baptist Leaders Clash Over ‘Coddling’ and ‘Cancel Culture’

-The French Press: The Pro-Life Movement Must Transcend Politics