Melissa Gendreau distinguishes biblical empathy from cultural empathy. Biblical empathy means understanding someone's pain while guiding them toward truth and better living, not absorbing their emotions or pretending to agree with them.
In recent years, our culture has shifted empathy to be mostly about emotions. They will describe it as feeling what the other person feels, sometimes to the point of taking on their emotional distress or excusing sin and calling it love. But biblical empathy is not emotional absorption. It's not agreement. It's not making excuses. It is compassionate thought. Understanding that leads us toward truth and helping the other person live a better life, exactly as we're called to do as believers in Christ.
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