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Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast

Not Beyond Reach - Softening Hearts with Spiritual Conversations, Part 2

Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast

Living on the Edge

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Has social media and the 24/7 news cycle convinced you that winning an argument is the most important thing? Even when we talk to our kids, grandkids, or friends about Jesus? In this program, our guest teacher Aaron Pierce has some challenging words for us to think about as he continues his series, Not Beyond Reach. Learn how to have healthy, spiritual conversations with those we care for that will attract them to the Gospel.

Main Points

Gospel conversation vs. spiritual conversation

  • Gospel conversation – is the biblical narrative of creation, fall, and redemption that is centered around the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus.
  • Spiritual conversation – is presuppositional, which means that it addresses the underlying assumptions that the gospel is built on.

How do you start a spiritual conversation?

  1. Ask the Holy Spirit for supernatural discernment. - 2 Corinthians 4:4
  2. Be WISE about your communication and avoid certain pitfalls.
  3. Everything has spiritual implications.

Four things to look for during spiritual conversations

  1. Idols – things they are putting their hope and identity in.
  2. Felt Needs – dealing with anxiety, depression, broken relationships, etc.
  3. Lies – things that they are believing that stand in the way of them hearing biblical truth.
  4. Truth – things they are already believing or living out that is in alignment with biblical truth.

How do you appropriately engage in a spiritual conversation?

  1. You are not convincing people that you’re right. You are encouraging them to pursue the Truth.
  2. Create an open environment where it’s okay to doubt, ask hard questions, say something naïve, and process in real time.

Have I failed if I don’t share the gospel?

  • I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God has been making it grow. - 1 Corinthians 3:6
  • You are not the hero; Jesus is!
  • Respond to the leading of the Holy Spirit.
  • The goal is to move people closer to Jesus at every interaction.
Broadcast Resource About Chip Ingram

Chip Ingram’s passion is helping Christians really live like Christians. As a pastor, author, and teacher for more than three decades, Chip has helped believers around the world move from spiritual spectators to healthy, authentic disciples of Jesus by living out God’s truth in their lives and relationships in transformational ways.

About Living on the Edge

Living on the Edge exists to help Christians live like Christians. Established in 1995 as the radio ministry of pastor and author Chip Ingram, God has since grown it into a global discipleship ministry. Living on the Edge provides Biblical teaching and discipleship resources that challenge and equip spiritually hungry Christians all over the world to become mature disciples of Jesus.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Has social media, talk shows, and the 24-7 news cycle convinced you that winning and argument

0:08.4

is the most important thing, even when it comes to talking to your children or grandchildren

0:14.9

or a close friend about Jesus?

0:17.3

Well today we're going to learn how to have spiritual conversations that actually attract

0:22.1

instead of repel the people that we love the most, stay with me.

0:30.9

Thanks for listening to this edition of Living on the Edge with Chippengrim.

0:35.4

The mission of these daily programs is to intentionally disciple Christians through the

0:39.6

Bible teaching at Chippengrim.

0:41.6

And boy he posed some pretty piercing questions for us to consider, you know many Christians

0:46.0

have fallen into the trap of talking at nonbelievers about Jesus instead of talking

0:50.9

with them.

0:52.2

In just a minute our guest teacher Aaron Pierce will continue challenging us to think differently

0:56.9

as he picks up in his series, Not Beyond Reach.

0:59.6

Well last time he described how to engage in spiritual conversations that rely on the

1:04.6

Holy Spirit's leading and careful words, today he'll further define those types of dialogues

1:10.0

and how we can approach people in a loving way.

1:13.1

So with all that said, let's join Aaron for his talk.

1:16.9

The next key principle is to recognize that pretty much everything has spiritual implications.

1:22.7

Like everything that we do and that we talk about has spiritual implications.

1:28.3

And that as skilled missionaries to our culture we need to be in tune and skilled at drawing

1:35.7

those conversations out in a natural way.

1:39.8

And that these are often very important things about us.

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