465 - Love is a Battlefield

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Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 22 July 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Love is a Battlefield. Today, we take a break from the To Be Human conversation to talk loving enemies, neighbors and family members with whom you (perhaps vehemently) disagree with. How is love often misunderstood? Love is not just a feeling, but an action. Mike uses the example of loving your neighbor as yourself, which means treating others with the same care and provision that you give to yourself. Mike and Tim also discuss the importance of loving your enemies and not harboring hatred or seeking revenge. We are to love others regardless of whether we agree with them or not, and to focus on actions rather than feelings. What are the distortions of love and how do they impact our relationships?

Three common distortions:

Love is about how I feel about somebody
I have to tell someone I disagree with them before I love them
If I love someone, I will speak harsh truth to them.

We challenge these distortions and emphasize the importance of covenant love, being committed to someone, being with them, being for them, and loving them towards Christlikeness. To. With. For. First, Mike and Tim discuss the week in crazy politics and a listener email about wether or not to honor a transitioning family member's preferred name and gender.

00:00 Intro 05:13 This Week in Crazy Politics 14:03 Email about Trans Family Members 21:00 Content on Loving Neighbor and Enemy

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0:00.0	Hey folks, welcome to episode 465 of the Voxology podcast. We're taking a little break from the current series to be human to talk about love.
0:14.0	Today we'll start with a little bit of an introduction, catching up on some things. Then at about the five minute mark, we will segue into a discussion about
0:22.7	politics and just everything that happened this last week and all the craziness that has ensued.
0:28.9	And what are we supposed to do with all that? Then at the 14 minute mark, we read an email from a
0:35.8	listener asking about how do you define loving a member of your
0:40.9	family who is transitioning, who is asking to be called by a new name with new pronouns.
0:48.0	What is the right posture to take? And even more so, what is the right posture to take with
0:52.2	family members who refuse to do so,
0:55.0	who think it is more important and loving to rebuke rather than accept?
1:01.0	And then at the 21 minute mark, we get into the content for today, which is all about love.
1:08.0	What kind of distortions have we found to the way in which we are supposed to love one
1:13.1	another? How do we resist those distortions? How do we posture ourselves within those different
1:18.9	types of love? It's a really important conversation and an eye-opening one for how we are to
1:25.5	go forward, how we are to posture ourselves in this world
1:30.2	at this time.
1:31.7	It's really interesting stuff.
1:33.8	Here we go.
1:52.2	Music I'm a mess in our am.
1:54.0	I get to be Han.
1:55.1	Punch it, Chewy?
1:58.9	Well, hello there.
2:00.5	Sometimes Tim and I are just talking. of a sudden it hits record and so here
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