Handling Disagreements with Care

Keep the Heart

Francie Taylor

Religion & Spirituality:christianity, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 26 October 2021

⏱️ 15 minutes

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It is possible to handle disagreements lovingly, but we'll have to remember that we love the people with whom we have the disagreement! It's too easy to fall into the "us against them" trap, leading to contentious disagreements that damage relationships. Anytime there are gatherings, there will also be multiple opportunities for disagreements. The old saying that you don’t discuss politics or religion at the dinner table needs a new category added: vaccinations. When I was a child and I would hear my Dad and Mom having a disagreement, if Mom kept adding to the list of transgressions Dad would say seven words: “You just want something to fuss about.” There are people today who qualify for that charge. They not only want something to fuss about; but they also expect you to agree with them or else you are most surely WRONG! When someone throws a baited hook at you in the form of a prickly statement, do you take the bait and jump into an argument, or do you use discretion and carefully consider your words before speaking? We may think that we must say something, but sometimes taking the bait leads to nothing but a war of words. This is way too big a topic to cover in a brief podcast, so we'll condense this down to four things that we can do to handle disagreements with tender loving care. Disagreements with are unavoidable. Arguments are avoidable. NEW! Encouragement for Women--A 30-day Devotional Little is Much When Many are the Givers Visit Keep the Heart Keep the Heart on Instagram Keep the Heart on Facebook Francie on Facebook

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0:00.0	Anytime we get together with people, there will be multiple opportunities for disagreements.
0:05.3	And that's true whether it's a one-on-one getting together or whether it's a group gathering.
0:10.8	The old saying that you don't discuss politics or religion at the dinner table actually needs a new
0:16.1	category added, vaccinations. I can hear my dad's voice in my mind. When he and my mom were having a
0:25.5	disagreement back when we were children and I was eavesdropping on it, if my mom kept adding to the
0:31.3	list of transgressions, my dad would eventually say seven words. You just want something to fuss about. There are many people today who
0:41.3	qualify for that charge. They not only want something to fuss about, but they also expect you to
0:47.8	agree with them or you must surely be wrong. When someone throws a baited hook at you in the form of a prickly statement, do you take the
0:57.1	bait and jump into an argument or do you use discretion and carefully edit your words? We may think
1:03.8	that we have to say something, but sometimes taking the bait leads to nothing but a war of words.
1:12.8	Disagreements are unavoidable.
1:15.6	Arguments are avoidable.
1:28.3	Thank you for joining Keep the Heart for today's podcast with Francie Taylor. Francie is an author,
1:34.5	teacher, and conference speaker. Sharing lessons from the Word of God is her passion. Now,
1:36.5	back to today's important study.
1:45.3	Our nation is divided, but this isn't anything new.
1:50.5	We just have a lot more access to the opinions of others, whether we want them or not.
2:02.8	If you're a history buff, you already know that this is not the first time our nation divided contentiously over issues that were passionately held by both sides. In other words, as it says in Ecclesiastes 1 verse 9, the thing that hath been, it is that which shall be, and that which is done is
2:10.1	that which shall be done. And there is no new thing under the sun. In other words, we've been here before.
2:20.9	Division is as old as the Old Testament. We can't make it go away, but we can change our reactions to careful responses, remembering that the
2:27.0	goal is not to win debate points, but to be ambassadors for Christ. We do not want to lose our
2:33.8	gospel focus in arguments unrelated to true
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