as a Christian how do I respond when my family or friend group is split politically my short answer announced right here Lisa turkers for president well I mean hey is there anything else okay that one came out of the blue shocked all of us on that one well speaking of shock let’s go that I mean that was me might attempt to be funny are we really shocked anymore about the culture and the environment so how no matter what the question is it’s a mess out there right now America is in what I call that trauma limic braid and
limic responses of fight flatter or freeze seemingly mainly fight so to really really acknowledge where in essence the culture is including maybe just our friends or family can be like it’s this is not where it used to be even 20 30 years ago it’s a very volatile playing field right now that’s for me to acknowledge this it’s really I think unprecedented times yeah I I think we need a guide mhm so we need a guide to help us it’s a topic I’ve been studying for the last 2 and a half years and yall are going to be like Joel for
real is this what you’re going to say and I’m going to say it and I’m going to try to defend it just a little bit uh we need humility we desperately need humility in this conversation humility is a protection a prevention and a preservation humility protects us from thinking too low of ourselves it prevents us from thinking too high of ourselves and it preserves Us in the Life of Christ so when we apply humility to the conversation of politics and disagreement what humility I think is going to allow us to do is to have um
this deep sense of confidence in our conviction compassion in the way that we communicate and above all it always reminds us that you and I are committed to the kingdom of God at all costs um and so if we can frame our relationships and our conversations through that lens of humility uh I think it’s going to lead to healthy relationships and will help us know when we ought to speak and when we ought to might be hesitant I think that’s really good for me I have to first ask myself the question do I have the emotional capacity to have this
