Hmm … not feeling the love.
“Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor perpetual animosity, resentment, strife, fault-finding and slander be put away from you, along with every kind of malice all spitefulness, verbal abuse, malevolence.
— Put aside anger and animosity.
— Be tenderhearted and compassionate.
Good advice don’t you think?
Love isn’t about feelings. I didn’t feel much love from my Dad when he told me I had to be home before ten, or when he told me my behavior was way out of line or that I had to take responsibility for my actions. In much the same way, those of us in the church don’t like being told that we are complicit in racism. (Please note the first person plural. I include myself under the same indictment) But if we are to be the church, the community where water is thicker than blood, where there is neither Jew nor Greek nor black nor white, then we need to hear this ugly truth about ourselves. Pretending it isn’t there just to maintain a warm and friendly atmosphere of civility is not love.
If my tone offends you, I’m sorry. But you should take a look at Paul’s letters to the Corinthian and Galatian churches. Next to Paul, I’m a virtual pussycat.