What's the difference between a weed and a wildflower? What's the difference between bullying and call-outs? Is there a point where criticism is not okay? What is the dividing line?
I think that criticism is okay under the circumstances that it is either
1) asked for by the person (either in a specific instance, like, "what do you think of how I reacted to ______?" or as an ongoing invitation, like part of my covenant with my husband is that we help each other be better people so there is always an open invitation to gentle criticism)
2) whatever the person has done has personally affected the person doing the criticizing. For example, someone does something that hurts me, and I tell them about it using an "I statement" rather than blaming (e.g. "when you said that all Christians were idiots, I felt hurt and angry because I am a Christian
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I think that criticism is okay under the circumstances that it is either
1) asked for by the person (either in a specific instance, like, "what do you think of how I reacted to ______?" or as an ongoing invitation, like part of my covenant with my husband is that we help each other be better people so there is always an open invitation to gentle criticism)
2) whatever the person has done has personally affected the person doing the criticizing. For example, someone does something that hurts me, and I tell them about it using an "I statement" rather than blaming (e.g. "when you said that all Christians were idiots, I felt hurt and angry because I am a Christian ( ... )
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