Christian Moore is an eight-year-old in Wichita, Kansas. On his first day of school this year, he noticed that a fellow classmate named Connor Crites was crying. Christian walked over, took Connor’s hand, and led him into their elementary school.
He didn’t know that his new friend is autistic.
Christian’s mother took a heartwarming photo of the two, hand in hand, walking into school. Connor’s mother responded: “It doesn’t matter color. It doesn’t matter gender. It doesn’t matter disability, and it doesn’t matter anything—just be kind, open your heart . . . it’s what we need in this world.”
She added: “One act of kindness can change someone’s life, can change the world. That’s all it takes.”
Saying to people what we say about them
Among all people, Christians should be most known for such compassion. Jesus’ example of empathetic love (cf. Matthew 14:14; 15:32) was imitated by those who touched a crippled man with healing grace (Acts 3:1–10), gave sacrificially to meet the needs of others (Acts 4:34), and cared for “orphans and widows in their affliction” (James 1:27).
And yet, our positions on divisive moral issues such as abortion and same-gender sexual relations have been castigated as just the opposite. Pro-life advocates are seen as waging a “war on women”; those of us who support biblical marriage are described as homophobic and hateful.
Tragically, some of this is the fault of some who claim our positions. Those who bomb abortion clinics or murder abortionists are criminals, not genuine representatives of Jesus. Those who picket funerals while carrying signs slandering LGBTQ people are hateful enemies of the true spirit of Christianity.
However, we don’t have to be this extreme to make things worse. When we say about people what we would not say to them, we misrepresent Jesus. When we reject a person based on their sexuality, we denigrate someone for whom…
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