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Rica Peralejo urges Christians to lead with 'love before judgment' when sharing faith

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<p>&quot;Love before judgment.&quot;</p><p>These were the words of Rica Peralejo as she reflected on how sharing the word of God should be rooted in compassion, cautioning that self-righteousness is ineffective.</p><p>&quot;I totally understand the desire to share God with other people but when you are not careful in doing it, whereby you sound self-righteous and all, then do not expect the message to come through. Love before judgment is the way of God. If the latter goes first, don&#x27;t call the unbeliever misunderstanding because the first miss here was yours. You didn&#x27;t really understand the way of the message,&quot; she remarked in a post on Threads. </p><div><br/></div><blockquote class="text-post-media" data-text-post-permalink="https://www.threads.net/t/DUzB5UDElCD" data-text-post-version="0" id="ig-tp-DUzB5UDElCD" style="background:#FFF;border-width:1px;border-style:solid;border-color:#00000026;border-radius:16px;max-width:540px;margin:1px;min-width:326px;padding:0;width:calc(100% - 2px)"><a href="https://www.threads.net/t/DUzB5UDElCD" style="background:#FFFFFF;line-height:0;padding:0 0;text-align:center;text-decoration:none;width:100%" target="_blank"><div style="padding:40px;display:flex;flex-direction:column;align-items:center"><div style="display:block;height:32px;width:32px;padding-bottom:20px"><br/></div><div style="line-height:21px;color:#999999;padding-bottom:4px"><br/></div><div style="line-height:21px;color:#000000">View on Threads</div></div></a></blockquote><script async="" src="https://www.threads.net/embed.js"></script><div><br/></div><p>The actress shared that this realization stemmed from her own past experiences.</p><p>&quot;I know this btw cause I was just as blind before. I thought the most important thing to do was to shove it into people&#x27;s minds how &#x27;different&#x27; I am by choosing to &#x27;stay pure&#x27; and all. Hoping they&#x27;d want to change, too. Yet all that did was earn praise from the believers while I totally put off the unbelievers. The irony of catching fish that&#x27;s already caught and well within the basket,&quot; she pointed out.</p><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/entertainment/showbiz/celebrities/2025/12/7/rica-peralejo-opens-up-about-major-changes-in-her-life-it-feels-like-i-m-in-a-second-wind-of-life-1454" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Rica Peralejo opens up about major changes in her life: ‘It feels like I’m in a second wind of life’</strong></a></div><p>Rica then urged Christians to reflect on who the message is truly reaching.</p><p>&quot;I think Christians should be able to tell what it is they are actually doing. Is it speaking to &#x27;the lost&#x27; or is it swimming in the praises of fellow believers? Cause you can really confuse the two. You think you&#x27;re &#x27;sharing the Gospel to those who need it&#x27; but the applause really is only coming from those who already know it, thereby making one a fisher of fish that’s already well within the net.&quot;</p><div><br/></div><blockquote class="text-post-media" data-text-post-permalink="https://www.threads.net/t/DUzLhxekvD8" data-text-post-version="0" id="ig-tp-DUzLhxekvD8" style="background:#FFF;border-width:1px;border-style:solid;border-color:#00000026;border-radius:16px;max-width:540px;margin:1px;min-width:326px;padding:0;width:calc(100% - 2px)"><a href="https://www.threads.net/t/DUzLhxekvD8" style="background:#FFFFFF;line-height:0;padding:0 0;text-align:center;text-decoration:none;width:100%" target="_blank"><div style="padding:40px;display:flex;flex-direction:column;align-items:center"><div style="display:block;height:32px;width:32px;padding-bottom:20px"><br/></div><div style="line-height:21px;color:#999999;padding-bottom:4px"><br/></div><div style="line-height:21px;color:#000000">View on Threads</div></div></a></blockquote><script async="" src="https://www.threads.net/embed.js"></script><div><br/></div><p>She also pointed out that some people may be drawn to ministry work because of the sense of affirmation they receive from fellow believers.</p><p>&quot;My theory of why people are addicted to ministry is because they find an amazing amount of significance in such a small pond. I mean, the applause can be very very loud in a small space which they think applies to spaces beyond the pond. Then they wonder why people outside aren&#x27;t happy when they speak their mind. Worse is that they label this as persecution or just a terrible misunderstanding. But newsflash, that was more like lack of reflexibility and awareness,&quot; she stated.</p>

<p>Rica Peralejo points out how sharing the word of God should be rooted in compassion, cautioning that self-righteousness is ineffective.</p>

Rica Peralejo points out how sharing the word of God should be rooted in compassion, cautioning that self-righteousness is ineffective.