Handling Difficult People - Combining Compassion with Space to Give Peace a Chance

Excel Still More

Kris Emerson

Self-improvement, Increase, Jesus, Achieve, Spiritual, Health & Fitness, Best, Goals, Faith, Religion & Spirituality, Excel, Christianity, Education, Grow

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🗓️ 18 August 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Send us a text How do you deal with people who do not like you, or want to be around you, or who do not treat you well? What about self-focused people who can't see past themselves to love others, including you? Today we look at an empathy progress scale to learn to see others properly, emotionally, like Jesus sees them. Then we examine the need to be okay with not being liked. The goal isn't to have people treat you better. The goal is for them to find their way in Christ to become better pe...

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Excel Stomore podcast. I'm so thankful that you've joined. Today's episode is sponsored by Spirit Building Publishers. This group of Christians is committed to providing fresh, relevant, and practical Bible study material for today's Christian families and churches.
0:23.0	Their workbooks and devotionals are rooted in scripture, easy to teach, and written for the real
0:29.1	world we live in. Whether you're studying with teens or leading a class or just growing on your own,
0:34.9	the Spirit Building website provides you with a wide variety of options.
0:39.3	You can visit them at spiritbuilding.com and discover materials that can help you and your church
0:46.0	excel still more.
0:49.8	Welcome back. Thanks for being here once again. I appreciate your kindness and encouragement, your support, your friendship, in any way that we can interact in the name of the Lord. I love friends, don't you? People who get us, who support us. It's not about anybody being perfect, but there's a lot of grace, understanding, and forgiveness. I hope that you have a lot of relationships like that in your life,
1:13.8	and that you're nourishing them, developing them, being selfless in them to cultivate greater strength.
1:20.4	That's not the focus of our episode today.
1:22.8	In fact, we'll be looking at a very different kind of relationship,
1:26.7	but I thought we might take a minute
1:27.9	and celebrate the good. Because they are not all good, the title of today's episode is
1:33.3	handling difficult people. And this, I have noticed, as the years go by and the net broadens
1:40.9	in terms of people that we know in different circles that we interact with,
1:44.3	whether it's professionally or spiritually or personally.
1:48.0	These are skills that need to be developed.
1:50.1	How to handle people, for instance, who just don't like you.
1:54.2	They don't get you.
1:56.0	They don't believe in you.
1:57.8	They may not even trust you.
1:59.9	There may be people who are adversarial against you. Maybe not in person, maybe in you. They may not even trust you. There may be people who are adversarial against you.
2:03.2	Maybe not in person, maybe in person. But maybe a lot of times when talking to other people,
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