Fighting the Four Evils

Emotional blackmail says, ‘If I feel hurt by you, you are guilty.’ There is no defense. The hurt person has become God. His emotion has become judge and jury. Truth does not matter. All that matters is the sovereign suffering of the aggrieved. –  John Piper This is what I have experienced from modern evangelicals, many of whom are ardent, vehement haters of Way of the Master, and accuse those who use it of being ungentle per se for using it; and who impose rules of forming friendships with the unsaved before evangelising  to them. 

Emotions are powerful. While emotions are a gift from God, they certainly can be misused, abused and faked. Satan uses emotional manipulation to deceive people into acting out on something on the mere basis of their emotions.  One's emotions do not determine reality. Rather, our emotions respond to reality based on what we perceived. Emotions dictate how we perceive things. This explains why people respond to the same text differently. My article at http://clashdaily.com/2014/07/darkness-abortion-seduces-promised-sexual-freedom/ is only one example. I thank the person who identified himself or herself as Prayer Warrior for standing up for me when a very upset Roman Catholic woman made vitriolic false accusations against me. I thank God for his or her grace in dealing with that RC woman who continually attacked me in her anger.  Emotions shape our perception of things, and we then act accordingly to how we perceive things. Emotions can be our friends when they direct u...