Theocast
How to Disagree as Christians
September 18, 2024
Summary
We live in a time where we’re prone to throw mud, be condescending, self-righteous, and accusatory, and we often misrepresent those with whom we disagree. This behavior doesn’t seem to align with what Scripture teaches about being gentle, kind, patient, and avoiding arguments. So, today, Jon and Justin are going to talk about that. We’ll also discuss the hope we have, our citizenship in heaven, and our Savior, Jesus, and how all of this should inform our posture and interactions with others. We hope this conversation is helpful to you.
Topics
- Episode focus: How to Disagree as Christians
- We live in a time where we’re prone to throw mud, be condescending, self-righteous, and accusatory, and we often misrepresent those with whom we disagree
- This behavior doesn’t seem to align with what Scripture teaches about being gentle, kind, patient, and avoiding arguments
- So, today, Jon and Justin are going to talk about that
- We’ll also discuss the hope we have, our citizenship in heaven, and our Savior, Jesus, and how all of this should inform our posture and interactions with others
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Transcript
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I don't know about you out there, dear listener, but every time I get on social media and I see what Christians post, I'm just absolutely encouraged.
That was a joke.
I find Christian social media to be a beatdown.
Today's podcast is not about the abject beatdown of Christian social media, but it is kind of a window into the conversation that John and I want to have about how we should disagree as Christians.
We live in a day where we're prone to throw mud and be condescending and self-righteous and accusatory, and we misrepresent people with whom we disagree.
And it does not seem to square with what the scriptures say about being gentle and kind and patient and not being argumentative.
So, we're going to talk about all that today.
We're going to talk about the hope that we have, a citizenship that is in heaven, and a Savior whose name is Jesus, and how all of that should inform our posture in the ways that we interact.
We hope this is helpful to you, particularly in this election cycle year.
Stay tuned.
If you're new to Theocast, you may not have heard of this word.
It's called pietism.
Have you ever felt like the Christian life is a heavy burden versus rest and joy that you wake up worrying about how well you're going to perform instead of thinking about what Christ has done for you.
It's dread versus joy, really.
That's pietism.
Pietism causes Christians to look in on themselves and find their hope not in what Christ has done, but what they're doing.
And we have a little book for you.
It's free.
We want you to download it, and we're going to explain the difference between pietism and what we call confessionalism, reformed theology, really, how it is that we walk by faith, seeing the joy of Christ, and when Jesus says,
Come to me and I will give you rest, what does that look like?
