The Importance of Empathy

A new movement a push in a by God's grace fringe area of the evangelical movement is essentially saying that empathy is sin. If people want to use empathy as the credential of all meaning that as long as you have been through something you're now the expert on all things, he says. The idea of trying to suffer with others to put ourselves in their shoes seems to be a misuse of what God is calling us to in this world and yeah which is foolishness.