The tov church will not protect the institution at the expense of the individual. The tov church will not spin false narratives to hide what has happened and protect the abusers. And the tov church will do everything it can not to re-wound the wounded. Empathy and compassion demand no less. Scot & Laura McKnight

Empathy is the ability to feel what someone else feels, to exit our own feelings and enter the experience of others. Thus, empathy is the ability to see the world through others’ pain.  Scot & Laura McKnight

To do tov requires us to resist what is not tov, what is bad and evil and corrupt. To live in the Spirit is to resist the works or acts of the flesh. Scot & Laura McKnight

23 Look deep into my heart, God, and find out everything I am thinking. 24 Don’t let me follow evil ways, but lead me in the way that time has proven true. Psalms 139:23‭-‬24 CEV https://bible.com/bible/392/psa.139.23-24.CEV

Over and over, the New Testament calls us to be people shaped into goodness, and this term is the New Testament equivalent of the Old Testament tov. Say it aloud: “The fruit of the Spirit is tov.” Scot & Laura McKnight