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How To Love Your Enemy When Your Enemy’s an Abusive Family Member

How To Love Your Enemy When Your Enemy’s an Abusive Family Member

Everybody knows the command to honour your father and your mother, and Jesus called us to love our enemies. But what if our enemy is also our abuser? What if the parent we’re called to honour is mistreating or exploiting us? Some say the Christian response is to turn the other cheek. Others follow the recent explosion in articles advocating that you cut off all the toxic people in your life. The biblical tension is somewhere in between.