Sermons on Gamaliel

Sermons on Gamaliel

Luke 9:49-62

Tolerance, the Dangerous Virtue Introduction:  One doesn’t normally think of virtues as being dangerous.  It’s vices that are dangerous.  But probably any virtue we can think of—love, patience, peace, honesty, you name it—can become a vice if applied in the wrong way or with the wrong motive.  I think that is especially true of the virtue our Scripture passage focuses on this morning, the virtue of tolerance. Tolerance is a rather hard trait to get a handle on.  If I were to ask you to…