Coexistence or Confrontation?

[236 words] How do you approach the sinful world in which we live? Are we content to coexist with sinful people or do we creatively confront sinners? If we are content to coexist nothing changes. But if we creatively confront sinners they may repent; they may get angry with us; and they may even persecute us.  Jesus was a master at creative confrontation with sinners. For example in Mark 12:1-12, Jesus told the parable of the vinedressers and when he finished the people “knew that he had spoken to parable against them.” Their sin in rejecting Jesus (the stone rejected by the builders) was made clear to them in the parable. On another occasion Jesus creatively exposed hypocrisy by asking the question, “Does not each one of you on the Sabbath loose his ox or donkey from the stall, and lead it away to water it? So ought not this…