If I'm in my name in, yeah,

Philemen, yeah.

Hey, everybody, it's Matt.

This is the 10-minute Bible Hour podcast,

and in my ongoing quest to never treat you with kid gloves and rooted in my

ongoing assumption that we can talk about difficult things and handle it together. Here is a painful

example that I know might hit close to home for some of you, but I think it's very relevant and really

analogous to something that we're

talking about in the Bible. Hmm. Okay, disclaimer made. Here we go. I want you to picture an

estrangement between people who used to care about each other, who you've known well. Maybe you've

never had that experience. I think you'll be able to imagine such a scenario. Divorce is the really obvious one in terms of

this scenario and how most people encounter it. You have two people who you get to know and you come to

love as kind of a package deal, but then they have some sort of falling out and then the falling out

goes nuclear and they full on break up. That's an incredibly painful thing

for them as they go through it, but it's also a surprisingly painful thing for that little

circle, that little community that it affects because such a falling out, it's very difficult

for it not to force everyone to take sides or formulate

opinions. And so what will happen is the circle surrounding this estrangement or this falling

out will start to pull back from one party or the other. And, or maybe they'll just pull back

from the whole situation altogether, resentment can kick in.

And it's just a very difficult knot to try to untangle. And if you've ever walked through that

from the fringes of it or in the middle of it, I'm very sorry. And I can relate to some of that pain.

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