Did you catch how Colby challenged me in this episode? I told him how I did a series a while back called “Lies We’ve Believed About God” and how one of the episodes was called “God is a Man” or something like that, I told him about the episode and then talked about the way all the comment sections across my social media platforms EXPLODED.
I mean.
SERIOUSLY.
You would have thought I was trying to get my listeners to worship Satan and kill their dogs - people FREAKED. I was getting messages, emails, comments, angry faces on my posts … ALL the things.
I love how Colby responded to my story, though; he said something along the lines that some people just aren’t ready to hear that kinda stuff because it literally shakes the core of their beliefs and makes them wonder … if they are wrong about those core beliefs, what else are they wrong about? And so rather than entertain the ideas, they white-knuckle their core beliefs even harder and will fight to the death to ward off any idea that might cause them to rethink those beliefs.
And then Colby reminded me that we have to have grace on them, and that we have to look at them and remember that we were once there too - steeped in our traditions and unable to see past them.
Hm.
And so I wonder who needs our grace this week?
I wonder what (for example) conservative Evangelical in your life or in my life needs our grace this week?
What person in our lives is so steeped in the traditions of their tribe that they can’t possibly image another way to think or believe?
I wonder what person in our lives we can look at and see our past selves in their eyes?
AND.
I wonder.
If we were to see our past selves in their eyes, I wonder how our interactions with them might change? Or even if the interactions don’t change, and we grow further apart (which is OK and sometimes the best thing for both parties) … I wonder if it will make it easier for us to pray for them or to think of them with compassion as opposed to disgust?
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Glenn || SUPPORT THE SHOW: PATREON / BUY ME A COFFEE