Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to drive across town.

I'm Keith Simon.

And I'm Patrick Miller. On today's episode, Simon and I'm Patrick Miller on today's episode Patrick and I are going to discuss how to have hard conversations

especially conversations with friends or family members you might be seeing over the holidays. You may have followed along but

we have been having lots of hard conversations around here ourselves and it's kind of brought

back to mind that it's a skill, almost a law skill of how to talk to people that you don't agree with.

And how to do that in a respectful way, how to do that in a way that you really learn something and maybe get to share

something important to you. And now we're all kind of hitting that holiday season and

it reminded us that many of us will be in a situation where we're talking with people that come from a real different

place on the political spectrum or religious spectrum or just culturally different than us.

Also we have created a really helpful checklist.

Seven items you can think about before you go into

a impossible conversation and during an impossible conversation.

If you want to download that, it's free.

You can find a link in our show notes.

And it's perfectly sized so you can screenshot it, have it on your phone, and use it on the go.

Keith, let's start off the episode by trying to talk about what kind of conversations we are going to talk about today and what kind of conversations we aren't talking about.

So we're not talking about the hard conversation that you need to have with your roommate or your spouse or somebody

at work that they're offending you or bothering you in some way.

That's not the way we're going today.

Those are really important conversations and maybe we'll handle those some other time.

But we're talking about the kind of conversation you might have over Thanksgiving dinner,

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