Hello, welcome back for season two of the Excel Stillmore podcast.

I am your host, Chris Emerson, and I'm here to encourage you with tips and strategies

to help you deepen your faith, build stronger relationships, and do the most with your life in Christ.

Thank you for joining. Let's get started.

Welcome to the episode. I'm so glad you're listening in today. As you can see, the title today is the goal of instruction. It actually comes

directly from a Bible passage today, which I'm genuinely excited to share with you. In fact, in general

today, I hope you will see how daily Bible reading and letting the Word of God influence you can provide direct help into your

relationships. To try and make that clear, I first need to explain that the episode today was

supposed to be titled something completely different. In fact, you may even say completely opposite. I was 100% determined to record an

episode called Don't Get Involved. Listen, I'm just like everyone else. I'm so frustrated by what we

are seeing around us. Division and anger and almost incurable wounds in our country.

We can look at it from a political division standpoint.

We could banter about medical division on how to handle our current crisis.

Now we have social and racial issues, and it just seems like everyone

who has participated in those things, everyone who has jumped out and tried to do something,

say something, write something, or somehow make it better, has just made it worse.

A lot of the things that are posted and said are done so without complete information.

Very few people really put in the time to figure out what they're talking about to make sure that it's factual and correct.

And so they just jump out there and try to make it better and it ends up

making it worse so i was thinking let's just not get involved that was my angle going into this

week don't jump in with comments don't make social media posts don't go into long speeches

just like we said a couple of weeks ago,

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