Compassion for the Sinned Against

Abstract

“People are not only willful violators of God's law, they are also the violated. This realization must have a bearing on our evangelism … The gospel which ignores the sinned against may work among the middle class … But it cannot possibly work among the overwhelming majority in Asia—peasants and workers who are poor … Compassion for people is possible only when we perceive people as the sinned against.”