Episode 93: How to Think, Speak, Act, and Pray When People Hate Us
You Were Born for This with Fr. John Riccardo
ACTS XXIX
4.8 • 652 Ratings
🗓️ 14 September 2020
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Never forget the dignity of the one who may be your enemy!
In this episode, Fr. John, Nick, and Mary talk about the current cultural climate of contempt and a way forward to navigate difficult conversations with love.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. Welcome to the You Are Born for this podcast with Father John Ricardo. That's me. |
| 0:09.1 | I'm Father John. I'm the executive director at Acts 29, where we talk about anything and everything related to transforming the church. |
| 0:15.0 | And as always, I'm here with Nick and Mary, my co-host, dear friends, Guys, we got a bombshell of a topic today, don't we? |
| 0:24.0 | I mean, the preparation for this thing's been insane. |
| 0:25.9 | Nick, what's our topic? |
| 0:26.9 | Yeah, it's been brutal trying to get this one ready. |
| 0:29.8 | How to think, speak, act, and pray when people hate us. |
| 0:34.0 | We tried doing this. |
| 0:35.0 | Woo-hoo, grab some popcorn and sit down. |
| 0:37.1 | Let's go to town. |
| 0:38.0 | It's like our third pass at this. |
| 0:39.7 | At least. At least. We tried doing this yesterday. I think we just |
| 0:43.0 | wrestled, sputtered, stopped, crashed. We just ended up leaving it. |
| 0:46.5 | I ended up hating you guys when I was done here. |
| 0:48.3 | We were filled with contempt. Wow. It was terrible. |
| 0:51.0 | It was rough. And even getting ready just now has been difficult. So we actually think |
| 0:55.4 | that's a sign, right? I mean, like, we're just confident, even just talking amongst ourselves. |
| 0:59.0 | We're going to pray here in a second. But, you know, like, we think we're so mindful that, you know, |
| 1:05.1 | as Christians are more and more confronted with people who appear to, or just downright say they hate us and what we believe, |
| 1:14.7 | like Christians are like, uh, how do I respond to this? And all too often, we're seeing people |
| 1:20.1 | or hearing people, more or less imitate the world. And so it's kind of a pastoral podcast, |
| 1:25.7 | right? Like, how do I deal with this? Like, this is, it's tough stuff, right? So that's what we're going to get into. So |
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