![]() This quotation is taken from comments John made back in 2008 in reference to the fact that A.W. I have seen it often in my three decades of ministry and I am eager to defend people who are being wrongly indicted by it. Emotional blackmail says, ‘If I feel hurt by you, you are guilty.’. A person may love well and the beloved still feel hurt, and use the hurt to blackmail the lover into admitting guilt he or she does not have. Emotional blackmail happens when a person equates his or her emotional pain with another person’s failure to love. I have seen so much emotional blackmail in my ministry I am jealous to raise a warning against it. ![]() Was David’s zeal for the Lord imbalanced because his wife Michal despised him for it? Was Job’s devotion to the Lord inordinate because his wife urged him to curse God and die? Would Gomer be a reliable witness to Hosea’s devotion?. And many did not like the way he loved them. Not feeling loved and not being loved are not the same. These words from influential pastor John Piper were posted on The Gospel Coalition (TGC) website on the 23rd of March 2015.
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