Episode 3: Criticism in the Church

Fearless with Cissie Graham Lynch

Billy Graham Evangelistic Association

Billy Graham, Society & Culture, Bible, Cissie Graham Lynch, Christianity, Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, Christian, God, Franklin Graham, Religion & Spirituality, Fearless

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🗓️ 2 July 2019

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

A few years ago my dad challenged my brothers and I to not be critical of other people’s ministries. This is something that I’ve been convicted of recently, as I believe we see more and more Christians attacking each other publicly, in places like social media and even from the pulpit. We may have concerns with a leader or ministry— and the Bible tells us how that should be handled― but when we let our words attack and tear down others in the church Satan wins the battle. My dad has often sai...

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Cissy Graham Lynch. Welcome to Fearless, helping you have a fearless faith and a compromising culture. Feeling. I want to be fearless.
0:16.0	Welcome to be episode of Fearless. And today we're going to talk about a
0:27.3	subject that I have been convicted of over this past year, maybe the last two years,
0:33.6	and that is Christians criticizing one another
0:37.2	or Christians attacking other ministries.
0:40.2	So often in this social media world,'s very easy through emotion to start attacking one another
0:47.6	And I think we live in a time in our society where the world is forever coming against Christians and we can't afford to be divided.
0:57.0	Roman 1617 says watch for those who cause division.
1:02.1	And many times that division is not coming from the outside, but
1:05.1	Satan is inside the church using division from the inside out and that is such a
1:11.4	dangerous place to be.
1:13.0	So today I want to talk about the dangers of criticizing one another.
1:21.0	There are so many nights you get on Twitter and you can quickly become angry.
1:27.0	Twitter is not the place to go at night before bed if you're wanting to go to bed happy
1:31.0	because what you often see on Twitter or social media,
1:35.9	obviously are people attacking one another.
1:38.4	You see hateful comments and just people being nasty.
1:42.9	It's so easy on social media to be nasty
1:45.2	because you're hidden behind your computer screen.
1:49.5	A lot of times what personally hurts me
1:52.4	is when I see people in ministry attack my dad.
1:56.4	That's the hard one because they might be judging my dad or the Ministry of Samaritan's purse or the Ministry of the Billy Graham Evangelistic
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