Hey friends, Elisa Childers here. Have you ever been talking with someone or even sharing

your faith or beliefs with someone? Only to be misunderstood. Only to be stereotyped

and have your motivations questioned as well as your actual character? Well, stay tuned.

As today we're going to talk about five common misconceptions about traditional Christians.

Several months ago I wrote a blog post called Five Popular Misconceptions of Traditional

Christians and I've never posted it because each time that I go to post it I just have this

hesitation because I think that when we write about controversial topics or we talk about

topics that others could perceive as hostile there's a tendency to read disagreement with a tone

in which it wasn't intended. And what I mean is that when someone reads a post that might be about

something that they are for but the post is against they can read into it a hostile tone or even a

hateful attitude that's actually not there. So in my case I've actually been contacted by a

couple of people who would be more on the liberal or progressive side of things who expressed

some surprise when they actually heard my speaking voice because when they were reading one of my

articles in which I was taking issue with something that they agreed with they were reading into it

a hostile tone. And so when they heard the heart behind it it's sort of softened things. And so I

decided not to do this in blog form but rather to do a podcast because then hopefully the heart behind

what is being said will come through. Because I actually don't have a heart of hostility or anger

toward progressive Christians or liberal Christians I actually have a heart for them

because I have a heart for everyone. I have a heart for people in general to experience and embrace

the fullness of what it means to follow Jesus. And we can learn what that is through

historic and traditional Christianity. So let's talk about that word traditional Christians.

That's part of the title is misconceptions of traditional Christians. Now it's very difficult

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