“I’m just saying I have seen things about myself online, of people saying, ‘He is leading people to hell,’ or saying things about me that are factually untrue and that are inflammatory, from Christians,” Jenkins said. “It doesn’t hurt me or offend me or anything like that. But every time I go, ‘Am I ever guilty of that? Do I ever, to make myself feel better, to justify my hatred or dislike of or resistance to someone else on the other side—do I ever do that?’”
While we might personally never take steps to murder someone, there are unstable people in the world who might be influenced by our inflammatory rhetoric and decide to murder someone.
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“I just hope that we take a look at ourselves,” said Jenkins, “and say, ‘Look, the No. 1 thing that we are called to is to love God and love others,’ and even in the midst of pain, even in the midst of hatred, even in the midst of violence, we are to love God and love others.”
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