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We’ve all heard the news: Dallas police officer Amber Guyger was convicted of murder in the death of Botham Jean.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The trial lasted a week.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The jury deliberated less than a day.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n And in that time, the media coverage was relentless.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n There was outrage and their were protests.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n And then Botham’s brother, Brandt Jean, took the s<\/span>tand to give a victim impact statement and said:<\/span><\/p>\n “If you truly are sorry, I know I can speak for myself, I forgive you. And I know if you go to God and ask him, he will forgive you.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n And I don\u2019t think anyone can say it \u2014 again I\u2019m speaking for myself and not on behalf of my family \u2014 but I love you just like anyone else.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n And I\u2019m not going to say I hope you rot and die, just like my brother did, but I personally want the best for you. And I wasn\u2019t going to ever say this in front of my family or anyone, but I don\u2019t even want you to g<\/em><\/span>o to jail. I want the best for you, because I know that\u2019s exactly what Botham would want you to do.<\/em><\/p>\n And the best would be: give your life to Christ.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n I\u2019m not going to say anything else. I think giving your life to Christ would be the best thing that Botham would want you to do.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n Again, I love you as a person. And I don\u2019t wish anything bad on you.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n I don\u2019t know if this is possible, but can I give her\u00a0<\/em><\/span>a hug, please? Please?”<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n And then the judge allowed Brandt Jean to give Amber Guyger a hug.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n And in that moment, Jesus changed everything.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n In that moment, grace won.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n All the hate and division and wedges the enemy of our souls had been driving between us forever were carried away in a tsunami of grace.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n You could almost hear Jesus saying, “It is finished.”<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n And there was reconciliation.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n There was forgiveness and grace where it was not earned, where it was not deserved, where no one expected it.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n And in that moment, what had been a senseless death was suddenly used by God to teach us all what Jesus really looks like.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Brandt Jean is only 18 years old. When you watch the tape of him speaking those words of grace, you can tell he’s not saying those words for his own glory. If anything, it seemed to me he couldn’t quite believe that he was there in that time, in that place, saying what he was saying.\u00a0 He seemed un<\/span>comfortable at best.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n But there he was.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n And after he gave that convicted murderer, th<\/em><\/span>e\u00a0<\/em><\/span>murderer of his own brother<\/em>, a hug.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n And Amber Guyger sobbed uncontrollably.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n After that, Judge Tammy Kemp consoled the Jean family, and then she left the courtroom and came back with her own Bible and gave it to Guyger, pointing out John 3:16 and assuring her that she could be forgiven, that she could<\/em> change her life.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n And the onlookers and the lawyers in the courtroom were in tears.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Because that’s what grace, –the real, true grace of Jesus Christ– does to your soul.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Since then, pundits and lawyers and people who were not there have raised a number of “concerns.” There were complaints and protests from The Freedom From Religion Foundation. 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