{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fthe-un-silent-church.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2Ftoxic-empathy-6kM452Yc","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"Did Jesus practice toxic empathy?","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/a68c7757-f766-409f-8a09-a88efdf2fb42/2aab37e1-f942-412e-b05c-cfae4b09dc70/unsilent-church-profile-fin-01.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"","height":200,"description":"A growing number of Christian voices are warning the church about something they're calling \"toxic empathy.\" Allie Beth Stuckey wrote a book on it, and Joe Rigney has called it \"the sin of empathy.\" The concern, more or less, is that empathy has been used to pull Christians away from love and truth, and into condoning sin.\n\nBut is that what's really happening, or is that just a narrative they've created?\n\nBecause the story of the gospel is not a God who stayed at a safe distance or a God who stayed away from sinners. It's a God who wrapped himself in flesh, walked into our mess, and met people inside their stories, even so much as to \"become sin, so that we might become the righteousness of God.\" \n\nSo did Jesus practice toxic empathy?\n\nWe talk about this and more in this episode of the Unsilent Church podcast."}