They are “judgmental, speak the truth without love, and have no room for grace or forgiveness.” The critics often confuse weakness with sinfulness and neglect issues of love, compassion, and forgiveness. The critics – the people who take a parental role with everyone they know.The people who pick them repeatedly, often end up depressed or with obsessive-compulsive disorders. The abandoners begin with statements of commitment but leave when one needs them the most. The abandoners – the people who can start a relationship, but can’t finish it.The first one is that, while there are many different kinds of unsafe people, most of them fall under the following three categories: So how do you know whom to trust? There are many things you’ll need to understand to answer that question properly. That’s because it’s usually the most winsome and promising individuals you’ll meet in life that will end up having the most troubling character faults. Indeed, it’s quite difficult to pick out the bad guys in real life. So, we choose people based on outward appearance, and then experience the inside of them and the pain of being in a real relationship with them – and come up very empty-handed.” “We tend to look on the outside and not the inside of a person. “We do not get a lot of training in evaluating character,” bemoan Cloud and Townsend. The skill of being able to tell these two types of people apart is called character discernment.ĭespite being one of the most important skills to have in life, it is also one of the most neglected. Unsafe people, on the other hand, are the “goats” – namely, the people who can be damaging to your confidence, trust, and even your health. Safe people are those who can help you become a better person solely by their presence in your life they are, to refer back to the parable we just told, the “sheep” of the world. There are, really, only two types of people in this world: safe and unsafe. So, get ready to learn how to differentiate between people who are good from you and those who aren’t, and prepare to discover how to make safe choices in all kinds of relationships, from family to friendship, romance and work! What is an unsafe person?
In many ways, “Safe People” by Christian authors Henry Cloud and John Townsend is precisely about this, but on a much more personal level – namely, it is a book about the art of being able to tell the sheep from the goats in your own life. Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world.’ Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.’” He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left. “When the Son of Man comes in his glory,” says Matthew 25, “he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.
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