From the Archives: The Epidemic of Quarrelsomeness
Grace & Truth with Owen Strachan
Grace & Truth with Owen Strachan
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🗓️ 7 August 2024
⏱️ 41 minutes
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From the Archives: Dr. Owen Strachan is with his family taking a little time off, but he'll return soon! In the meantime, we at Grace and Truth wanted to re-share and episode that we hope will bless you. Here, Owen discusses the issue of quarrelsomeness among Christians and talks about how quarrelsomeness has become an epidemic in today's society, fueled by platforms that reward controversy and conflict. Owen takes the time to emphasize the importance of kindness and gentleness in the Christian faith and warns against the extremes.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, happy summer. It's Owen Strand. I'm back. Except right now, grace and truth is on a short summer break. There's a lot going on in my life. My family is moving from one state to another, and we may even be enjoying just a few days of this summer. And so this episode is one we have run previously, but it's one that our audience, my audience has responded to very |
| 0:20.9 | strongly, and so we're representing it to you in hopes that it will be a blessing in some small |
| 0:25.8 | way to you. We'll be back recording and releasing new episodes very soon. Until I return, enjoy |
| 0:31.7 | your summer, and God bless you. We've all experienced it. |
| 0:44.5 | I think you're being a little bit defensive and we say, and you know this. |
| 0:49.2 | No, I'm not. |
| 0:51.3 | It's easy, much easier than we might like to admit, for us to be quarrelsome. Quarlesomeness, I think today in early |
| 0:59.0 | 2024 is nothing less than an epidemic. We have platforms, in fact, that reward nothing other than |
| 1:06.6 | quarrelsomeness. If you start a fight, if you cause some controversy, that is really a great way |
| 1:12.2 | for you to drive traffic and get market share and boost your brand. But Christians need to think |
| 1:19.4 | in a very deep way, in a gospel-driven way, about quarrelsomeness. Let's do that today. Welcome to |
| 1:25.7 | Grace and Truth. My name is Owen Strand, and I will be your host. Please subscribe to this podcast on Spotify or Apple or YouTube or wherever you like to get your podcast. |
| 1:37.2 | Subscribing to the podcast is a very big deal. It's a huge help to us, and it's a huge help to my parent company, Salem. Here's a verse for us to think |
| 1:47.6 | about as we consider quarrelsomeness in this particular episode of grace and truth. Actually, it's two |
| 1:53.2 | verses, two for the price of one. Second Timothy two, 24 and 25. The apostle Paul writing to his |
| 1:59.4 | protege, Timothy says this, and the Lord's servant must not |
| 2:03.2 | be quarrelsome, but kind to everyone able to teach patiently enduring evil, correcting his opponents |
| 2:12.7 | with gentleness. God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth. What a passage. |
| 2:23.5 | There are numerous Bible passages, many, that when read, effectively rebuke the spirit of the age, |
| 2:32.3 | on the one hand, and then the drift of our own heart. |
| 2:38.0 | This is one of them, because this is an age, as I alluded to in the intro, when it is really |
| 2:44.2 | easy to be quarrelsome. |
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