Isn't it good to be around people who are not easily offended?  In the love chapter in First Corinthians thirteen, one of the descriptions of someone who is under the influence of love is not being easily provoked or stirred up.  We often think of a loving person as someone who is always acting toward others by giving or instructing or guiding or helping in some way.  We see loving people as very active in deeds of love like visiting sick people or feeding the homeless and certainly these can be loving acts.  But one of the most important aspects of love is not the direction out but the direction in.    Love is not just how we act toward people but how we receive them.  Paul says that a loving person is not easily offended.  This means that a biblical approach to relationships involves not just how we act but how we receive and handle the actions of others.  We have all known someone who was just itching to be offended.  This person is so eager to be offended that if you don't do somet...