What is your conscience?

Most of us have some sense for what we mean by that word, but we'd probably struggle to clearly explain what our conscience is designed to do,

and how it relates to objective right and wrong. Should we always obey our conscience?

Can our conscience ever be incorrect? And what do we do when our conscience? Can our conscience ever be incorrect?

And what do we do when our conscience disagrees with another Christians?

In our interview today, I'm talking with J.D. Crowley and Andy Nasselli, co-authors of

Conscience, What It Is, How to Train it, and loving those who differ from Crossway.

Let's get started.

Well, J.D. and Andy, thank you so much for joining me today on the Crossway podcast.

Thanks.

My pleasure.

So the conscience is one of those topics that comes up, I think, fairly frequently in our

conversations.

It's not an unfamiliar concept.

And yet my guess is that there are probably lots of different ways that people understand

the conscience, different ways that we talk about it.

Some of them, perhaps somewhat mutually exclusive

or not always very compatible. And so you two have both spent a lot of time thinking about this

topic of the conscience, thinking about it practically, but also thinking about it through the lens

of the Bible. So maybe to start our conversation, what are some of the most common misconceptions in your opinion about the conscience that you've encountered?

J.D., let's start with you.

Yeah, we really hit all these misconceptions head on right at the beginning of our book when we, in a positive way, laid out truths or principles

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