Honor in a Cancel Culture | True Virtue Part 1

Life.Church with Craig Groeschel

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🗓️ 9 May 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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God calls us to honor people, not cancel them, even when they offend us. How is that possible? Find out in Week 1 of our new series, True Virtue.

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0:00.0	Well, some would say that we're living in the age of perpetual offense, where we're quick to judge,
0:10.0	quick to criticize, quick to condemn, and quick to cancel anyone who offends us.
0:19.6	Have you noticed that? It used to be just those who were more well-known, like we'd cancel
0:26.8	the politicians or the athletes or the business leader, but unfortunately, now it might be someone
0:33.6	like your school teacher that says something that you don't like. It could be the person that you
0:40.1	work with or it could be the friend on social media that just crosses some line, and so you just
0:46.0	write them out of your life. It doesn't take much in the culture that we're in today. It could be
0:52.4	a single misstatement. It could be a misunderstanding. It could be something very intentional,
0:58.8	something very, very dumb. It could be a tweet that's 10 years old, but there might be a person
1:04.9	that literally had years and years of integrity, but with one moment of foolishness, or even one
1:12.7	moment of sinfulness, we just completely write them out. The tragedy is to me is it's not just with
1:19.5	those who are well-known that it's so easy to dismiss, but today it can be with your friends,
1:24.7	it can often be with your family. There are family members who don't speak because they don't like
1:29.9	the way another family member voted, or they don't like who they follow on social media, or there
1:35.7	was a disagreement over a single issue, and so we completely distance ourselves from somebody.
1:42.5	It doesn't have to be just something that's big, or what would be majorly important. It could be
1:49.4	that I just don't like the way she was looking at me. He never comments on my posts, and they're
1:58.4	really, really slow to respond to my text because one time I texted and you started to respond.
2:05.6	I saw the bubbles, and then you ghosted me. I'm so done with you. We live in the age of
2:15.2	perpetual offense. We have to acknowledge the truth that if you're on a continuous search to be
2:23.6	offended, you'll always find what you're looking for. And when we live in such a culture that's almost
2:34.3	looking to be offended, looking to be angry, and looking to dishonor, the way we're called to live
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