Hi, and welcome to Jesus Over Everything, a short practical podcast that mixes encouragement,

the Bible, how-toes, and fantastic interviews for the listener on the go. I'm Lisa Whittle,

and I welcome you to just a few minutes with me, which I trust and pray will be time well-spit.

First Devo show of season three, and remember, we're talking about phrases Christians love this season.

Not all bad, not all good, and definitely not all helpful. Some phrases we say, I think, are a little

more nuanced than the definitive way we dogmatically pronounce them. And today's phrase

Christians love to say is one such as that, here it is. Let's be known for what we are for,

not what we are against. Oh, I know. Some of you are already raising your eyebrow at me because you

love this one. On the surface, it sounds exactly right. And I don't disagree with it completely,

by the way. I just think there's a little more to it than the phrase

itself. And today, I'll pull the curtain back and dive into it on Joe.

We all know we live in a polarized world. Who believes what? Who is for what political party?

And even though the lines of standard are often blurred in our culture,

we are also getting more opinionated. Or maybe I should say it like this. We've always had opinions.

I think we just feel much more free anymore to express them in our Anything Goes culture.

There's a big difference between denying our rights and general human

courtesy to get along well with others. And I think that's been largely lost for so many of us.

We tend to confuse speaking our mind with being real and the two are most definitely not the same.

What we end up with is I think some volatile situations that don't need to

happen when it comes to speaking our mind about things or speaking up and speaking at a turn.

Honesty does not require verbalizing that private thought or feeling all the time.

I think some of us could do better with that. A lot of us are sick of the tone of general disrespect in our society.

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