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Stone Choir

Speaking the Truth Plainly

Stone Choir

Stone Choir

Education, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 585 Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2023

⏱️ 103 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Hosts

Corey J. Mahler

coreyjmahler.com

@CoreyJMahler

    Woe

    aka Eschatologuy

    @treblewoe

      Some subjects are more important than others. No amount of discussing the best color to paint a room is likely to endanger the souls of anyone participating in the discussion or just listening to it, but the same cannot be said of discussion of doctrine and theology.

      When we handle the things of God, we are duty bound to be careful, to be clear, and to be true. Needless wrangling over terms and technicalities seldom benefits and often harms.

      But avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, dissensions, and quarrels about the law, for they are unprofitable and worthless. As for a person who stirs up division, after warning him once and then twice, have nothing more to do with him, knowing that such a person is warped and sinful; he is self-condemned.

      However, as Christians, we do have a duty to speak of God and His truth. In almost all cases, simple is best. Speak the truth, in season and out. And, of course, know when to hold your tongue.

      Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.

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      0:00.0

      The The Welcome to the Stone Choir podcast. I am Corey J. Mahler.

      0:41.5

      And I'm Woe.

      0:44.5

      What problem are you trying to solve?

      0:47.8

      Anyone who's been friends with me for any length of time has probably heard me ask that question more than once.

      0:53.7

      Probably dreads hearing it.

      0:55.4

      If you come to me with a problem or a question, or even if within earshot, you're complaining about

      1:01.8

      something, there's a decent chance that eventually I will ask you what problem are you trying to

      1:06.3

      solve. Today we're going to apply that question to a couple different circumstances that are part of the Christian experience.

      1:14.6

      As part of our Christian lives, we're called to testify to our faith to others, and we're called to discuss our faith with others within the church.

      1:24.6

      So outside of the church to those who are unbelievers and inside the church to those who do have faith, but maybe they come from differing beliefs.

      1:34.0

      So the first scenario we're going to discuss in the first half of the episode is how do you discuss your faith with an unbeliever?

      1:44.1

      And the reason I want to frame that in terms of

      1:46.2

      what question are you trying to solve is that as Christians, we want to ultimately share the good

      1:52.9

      news of the gospel, namely that Jesus Christ died for our sins on the cross, because we know

      1:58.6

      that there's nothing we can do to pay for our sins but for an unbeliever

      2:03.8

      those there are a lot of assumptions packed into that that they don't follow they don't have the

      2:08.1

      givans that we have so to tell them jesus died for your sins sort of as the intro it's kind of like

      2:15.0

      reading the last page of a novel to someone. They don't care.

      2:19.0

      Like they're not invested in any of it. So you gave them a fact. Why is it, how is it connected to them?

      2:25.6

      So we're going to talk about how to, in some cases, discuss your faith with people in a way that

      2:32.4

      you wouldn't necessarily think of normally.

      2:35.0

      And it's going to challenge all of us to think about Christian life in areas where we don't

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