Related commentaries – Condemnation

Condemnation of False Worship – Isaiah 66:1 – 66:9

Acceptance Does What Condemnation Can’t do

“To accept people is to be for them. It is to recognize that it is a very good thing that these people are alive, and to long for the best for them. It does not, of course mean to approve of everything they do. It means to continue to want what is best for their souls no matter what they do.” AND - after comparing the difference in the way Jesus and the teachers of the law dealt with the woman caught in adultery (they wanted to throw stones, he accepted her and said ‘go and sin no more) he writes; “Amazingly enough radical acceptance does what condemnation and being judgmental could not do: produce a changed life...” (Steve Malone - Sermon Central).