How Can I Give Honest Criticism with Grace and Love?

Ask the Pastor with J.D. Greear

J.D. Greear

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 624 Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

This week on Ask the Pastor, Pastor J.D. answers a question submitted by Tristan who asked, "As Christians, how can we be honest about an individual's poor performance (in my case, scoring a poor performer based on their work quality) with grace and love?”

A glimpse inside this episode:

Honest criticism can be done in a loving and graceful manner. It's so vital to balance feedback with grace, as well as address poor performance. Humility and relational context will play a huge factor in graceful feedback. Ultimately, there is a huge need for specific feedback because that fosters growth and development.

* The goal of salvation is a new kind of righteousness.
* Understanding sin requires both head knowledge and heart transformation.
* Living by faith means choosing what is right despite feelings.
* Growth in grace involves recognizing our ongoing need for grace.
* Sowing seeds of righteousness leads to spiritual growth.
* Habits shape our desires and affections.
* Choosing against fleshly desires is a step of faith.
* Reckoning ourselves dead to sin empowers us to resist temptation.
* Prayer and belief in the gospel are essential for spiritual life.
* Continuous reliance on God's grace is crucial in the Christian walk.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, welcome to Ask the Pastor.
0:09.9	I am Matt Love.
0:11.3	I am here with Pastor J.D. Greer.
0:14.8	And I said this kind of in the teaser at the end of the last episode, but this is a question
0:19.9	from Tristan.
0:20.6	But Tristan is asking a
0:23.0	question that a younger version of myself needed this podcast to answer. So everyone in my life
0:29.6	regrets that I didn't have this podcast 10 years ago, J.D. But Tristan says, as Christians,
0:35.4	how can we be honest about an individual's poor performance? In my case,
0:41.1	scoring a poor performer based on their work quality with grace and love. And maybe to simplify the
0:47.0	question a little bit, how can I give honest criticism with grace and love?
0:53.1	I'm just saying, is your stage name, Tristan, Matt?
0:56.5	Is that, are you setting up for some critique of me?
0:59.5	Is that what I should expect after this podcast?
1:01.6	I'm about, depending on how you answer this question,
1:04.3	it's going to define what our next episode of the podcast is all about.
1:08.6	Well, listen, hey, Tristan, whoever you are, you know, this is actually, man,
1:14.5	what a pressing question. And I'll try to answer it in the context you're giving it in,
1:17.8	which is in the workplace context, although I think what we're going to say here would apply to
1:21.1	friendships or, you know, family relationships. But yeah, I think especially in this discussion, we don't have to see grace
1:30.7	and love and honest feedback as opposites. In fact, I wouldn't even say they're really
1:36.4	intention at this point. I think one can be done in the service of the other. And it's true,
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