There have been incidents in the past when comments a person made years ago resurface and come back to haunt them.
I certainly don’t want to justify or excuse hateful comments.
But people are also capable of changing. And I think that’s one thing our society is struggling to accept with the social media mobs who attack people.
This week, a story stuck out to me as being a rock bottom of absurdity. Indy Car driver Conor Daly lost a sponsorship with Eli Lilly over a racial slur. Not one that he said. He father said it.
In the 1980s.
Before Daly was even born.
And now his son is paying the price for that 30 years later.
That. is. insane.
It’s insane to be punished for someone else’s actions.
For Christians, while we should not condone sin, we should remember that people are capable f change because the gospel changes lives. The gospel transforms. The gospel soften hardened hearts.
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Josh Benner is the associate pastor at Cornerstone Evangelical Free Church in Fergus Falls, Minnesota and has a Master of Divinity from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He enjoys writing about faith and culture. He lives with his wife Kari in Minnesota.
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