When we interact with the outside world, it's easy for believers to respond in anger rather than reflect the love of Christ.

Russell Moore sees this in some of our online interaction.

If all I knew about Christianity is some of the things that I see posted on Facebook, I wouldn't want to be a Christian either.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast for Thursday, November 3, 2016.

Well, it seems like we're living in an entirely different world today than the one I grew up in.

You know, as I was growing up, although many people weren't serving the Lord, most people knew some basic things about God and about the Bible.

There was some common ground we could find to talk about morality and a common sense of what was right and what was wrong.

So what's the situation like today? Well, in many circles, if you talk about the existence

of right and wrong, you're going to be looked at like you're crazy, even sadly in some churches.

So as never before, we need to hold steadfastly to the truth.

At the same time, the world around us is a lot more divisive and polarized.

It seems like warring groups can't even talk with each other.

So while holding fast to the truth, we need to do it in a way that creates bridges of kindness and civility and compassion.

Now, how do you do both of those?

Well, Dr. Russell Moore has thought a lot about this.

He's the president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission for the Southern Baptist Convention.

And in that role, he has a lot of opportunities

to speak both to the church and to the mainstream media. So he's had to grapple with this

tension, speaking the truth, but speaking it in love. Dr. Moore spoke at the opening session of the

True Woman conference a couple of months ago, and he showed us how the church

can present a winsome picture to the world by embracing our own brokenness and neediness.

We'll be hearing his message from True Woman today and tomorrow here on Revive Our Hearts.

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