Theocast
How to Lose Friends and Alienate People!
January 3, 2024
Summary
Happy New Year from us here at Theocast! We assume that you might’ve had some difficult conversations over the holidays about Jesus or about matters of theology and the Christian life. In light of that, how should we approach disagreement--amongst our family and friends, or even in our churches? (Hint: patience, gentleness, and love are generally useful.)
Topics
- Episode focus: How to Lose Friends and Alienate People!
- Happy New Year from us here at Theocast!
- We assume that you might’ve had some difficult conversations over the holidays about Jesus or about matters of theology and the Christian life
- In light of that, how should we approach disagreement--amongst our family and friends, or even in our churches?
- (Hint: patience, gentleness, and love are generally useful.)
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Transcript
Edited machine transcript. May contain errors. Select a timestamp to watch that moment.
Hi, this is Justin.
Happy New Year to all of you listeners out there.
Today on Theocast, John and I are going to have a conversation that we think might be applicable to things that you perhaps have gone through in the holiday season.
Maybe time with friends, time with family, and let's just be frank: not everybody agrees.
Maybe even on Christ and the gospel at all, but even amongst believers, maybe some of your family and friends do not understand the gospel or the law or the scriptures the way that you do.
How is it that we should approach disagreement about theology or about the Christian life?
What are the best ways to be winsome over the long haul to see people come to see the sufficiency of Christ for them.
John and I are going to talk about that from the perspective of not just our ministry or being pastors, but just being Christians and engaging others over things that we disagree about.
We hope this is helpful to you.
We mean for it to be pastoral and encouraging.
Stay tuned.
Before we jump into the podcast, we want to tell you about a really important announcement.
We're doing a one-day conference on suffering and the return of Christ.
It's going to be January 18th, 2024, in Escondido, California.
And we're going to be doing it with Abounding Race Radio with the host Chris Gordon.
And we're going to be hosting it at his church, which is Escondido United Reformed Church.
We're going to be having four sessions.
It's going to start in the morning, Thursday morning at 10 a.m., and we're going to go all the way through the evening.
And we're going to have a special guest with us that evening, Dr.
Bob Godfrey, who's going to be joining us in a panel as we discuss the importance of suffering and eschatology and why our eschatology matters.
