As for interpretation. Christ’s true body decides how its members should operate, with Our Lord as its head.

Cruelty I can understand is not the Christian message. Yet the common ground you appeal to is the Christian standard. Love does not mean like, but rather with your entire being and action, you must will the Good for all sinners, no matter what.

Humour may be a good option here, but the truth behind the sentiment is all the same. You can give someone a cure and they can take the cure wrongly. We have to promote the Christian faith in what Christ meant for it to be. Not as something that enables us, but corrects and reproves us.

No, a remedy to a disease isn’t to be blamed for those that refuse to take it.

Hey, the church wasn’t built for good people, the strength of the church is the very fact that people suck. Otherwise we would only be divine as an institution and in no way human. The church is both divine and human. Divine in that we achieve perfection in Christ, human in that we are not there yet

I see man! But no I assure you, the Orthodox Church, from its clerics to its members across the planet, champion the opinion that the Orthodox Church is *the* church instituted and sustained by the person and energy of Christ! Have you ever been to one?

This is a prevalent problem. A shame that they will leave sooner than they came in. Let us pray that they have the courage to go to the house of God!

Not to be obnoxious, but I think it’s fine to say that a reason for conversion is that they were the original.

It is statements like this that will act as the catalyst to things that will be beyond your tentative control.

Let us pray for the unity of the heart of man with the Spirit of Christ.

You explain this with unchristian Christian men as the cause.