Your 'Hard Truth' Isn't Love. It's Power.
Almost every single time I post something on social media about God being love, about Jesus saying his disciples would be known by their love, someone shows up in the comments with the same response: “But real love means telling people the truth!” And then, like clockwork, comes the baby running into traffic.
You know the line. “If a baby’s about to run into traffic, the loving thing is to grab them and yank them back, even if it hurts them. Sometimes love has to be tough.”
I’ve seen this analogy deployed dozens of times across X, Facebook, Instagram, and every comment section of every progressive Christian blog post ever written. It’s become the go-to defense for why Christians should be known more for what we oppose than what we support. Why our “truth-telling” often looks suspiciously like condemnation. Why love, apparently, requires us to police other people’s lives, relationships, and callings.
Here’s the thing: I used to believe this argument.…
