Love is a Battlefield: Overcoming Distortions in Loving Others (To Be Human Series)

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Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 22 July 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Explore how reexamining biblical love can transform our relationships, especially when facing disagreements or challenging situations. Mike Erre and Tim Stafford delve into common distortions of love within Christianity, discussing how to genuinely love others as Jesus taught—even when it's difficult.

Key Takeaways:

Love as Action, Not Just Emotion – Understanding that biblical love is demonstrated through actions, not merely feelings.
Commitment Before Correction – The importance of being committed to, with, and for others before attempting to guide them.
Reframing 'Speaking the Truth in Love' – Challenging the misconception that we must correct others before loving them.
Loving Without Agenda – How to love others without the need to first express disagreement or disapproval.
Practical Application in Tough Situations – Addressing ways to love family members who make choices we might not understand or agree with.

Resources Mentioned:

Scott McKnight's A Fellowship of Differents
Preston Sprinkle's Embodied
Ephesians 4

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As always, we encourage and would love discussion as we pursue. Feel free to email in questions to [email protected], and to engage the conversation on Facebook and Instagram.

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Follow Mike on Twitter: www.twitter.com/mikeerre

Music in this episode by Timothy John Stafford

Instagram & Twitter: @GoneTimothy

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey folks, welcome to episode 465 of the Voxology podcast. We're taking a little break from the current series to be human to talk about love.
0:14.0	Today we'll start with a little bit of an introduction, catching up on some things. Then at about the five minute mark, we will segue into a discussion about
0:22.7	politics and just everything that happened this last week and all the craziness that has ensued.
0:28.9	And what are we supposed to do with all that? Then at the 14 minute mark, we read an email from a
0:35.8	listener asking about how do you define loving a member of your
0:40.9	family who is transitioning, who is asking to be called by a new name with new pronouns.
0:48.0	What is the right posture to take? And even more so, what is the right posture to take with
0:52.2	family members who refuse to do so,
0:55.0	who think it is more important and loving to rebuke rather than accept?
1:01.0	And then at the 21 minute mark, we get into the content for today, which is all about love.
1:08.0	What kind of distortions have we found to the way in which we are supposed to love one
1:13.1	another? How do we resist those distortions? How do we posture ourselves within those different
1:18.9	types of love? It's a really important conversation and an eye-opening one for how we are to
1:25.5	go forward, how we are to posture ourselves in this world
1:30.2	at this time.
1:31.7	It's really interesting stuff.
1:33.8	Here we go.
1:52.2	Music I'm a mess in our am.
1:54.0	I get to be Han.
1:55.1	Punch it, Chewy?
1:58.9	Well, hello there.
2:00.5	Sometimes Tim and I are just talking. of a sudden it hits record and so here
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