How did Jesus engage with a cultural enemy?

Ask Away

Vince and Jo Vitale

Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 714 Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

For many of us, it feels incredibly stressful to unexpectedly find ourselves in a religious or political conversation with anybody, friend or stranger, who holds radically different views from our own. When that happens, how do you handle the situation? And what does the other person walk away thinking and feeling, after they have encountered you? This week on Ask Away, Jo Vitale considers how Jesus Christ handled being in a similar situation, and what his approach means for us today. ------ We’re so glad you joined us for Ask Away. If you have a question that needs answering, we’d love to hear it. Send us an email at askawayquestion@gmail.com or call and leave a voicemail at ‪(321) 213-9670‬. Ask Away is hosted by Vince and Jo Vitale, and produced by Studio D Podcast Production. New episodes come out regularly, so make sure to subscribe. The best way you can support Ask Away is to leave a review. All you have to do is open up the Podcast App on your phone, look for Ask Away, scroll down until you see ‘Write a Review’ and tell us what you think. If you’d like to see videos from Vince and me, invite us to speak, or make a financial gift so that more people’s questions can be heard on Ask Away, visit Kardiaquestions.com See you next time, and remember, if you have a question, it’s worth asking.

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0:00.0	I was a skeptic who came to faith through asking hard questions.
0:04.0	I'm a long-time Christian whose faith was challenged by hard questions.
0:08.5	Whatever your story is, we all ask questions.
0:12.0	But some questions are more difficult to answer than others.
0:16.0	And some questions keep us up at night.
0:18.5	Who am I?
0:19.5	Does my life have value?
0:21.2	What determines my identity and purpose?
0:23.7	Is there a God?
0:24.9	Does he care?
0:26.0	What will happen when I die?
0:27.8	Is it even possible to know the truth?
0:29.7	We believe every question is valuable, and we receive every question as a gift.
0:35.8	So welcome to the podcast, where we invite you to Ask Away.
0:41.2	Hi friends, welcome back to Ask Away. So grateful to have you with us. And if you have a burning
0:45.8	question about life and faith or one you want to ask for a friend, stick around at the end of
0:50.6	the episode to hear how you can submit your question for a future show.
0:55.7	This week on Ask Away will be listening to a talk that Joe gave two weeks ago at a church in Silicon
1:01.8	Valley as part of their Why Jesus evangelistic series. You'll hear Joe reflect on what it means
1:07.6	for us personally that Jesus would go so far out of his way to
1:12.6	personally interact with a woman who everyone else in his circles would have written off as
1:18.5	the wrong religion, the wrong ethnicity, the wrong gender, the wrong story in just about every
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