Doing onto others
“So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets. Matthew 7:12 ESV Actions flow out of attitudes. Behaviors are shaped by beliefs. Therefore, we shall not succeed in doing unto others, till have come to think of others rightly. If we think of them poorly, we shall render only poor service to them. If we do not respect people, we will not do well by them. At best we give them less than they are worthy of, and at worst we patronize them. Where is our motivation to serve those, we do not respect? We cannot be doing unto them because they are worthy of it, we do not believe that. So, we are doing it for own sake, to be obedient, or to signal our virtue, or to silence the nagging sense that there is something wrong with our perspective. I want to focus our discussion on how we treat people at...