Here's Nancy DeMas Walgamuth. Psalm 85 says that in Christ, mercy and truth are met together.

Righteousness and peace have kissed each other. Christ is the one who perfectly embodies both grace and truth.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth, author of The Quiet Place.

For July 13, 2021, I'm Dana Gresh.

Is it possible to be meek and yet to confront someone about sin in their life?

Nancy will explore that in the series, The Beauty of Meekness.

I heard about a support group for submissive people that is called dormats.

That stands for dependent organization of really meek and timid souls, if there are no

objections.

Their motto was, the meek shall inherit the earth, if that's okay with everybody.

And their symbol was the yellow traffic light.

Well, I don't need to tell you that that is an unhealthy, unbiblical perversion of meekness.

And yet I think it's one that people commonly have when we talk about meekness. They think of weakness.

Being timid, being spineless.

They think of meekness as being equal to weakness.

Now, in the last session we talked about how to respond when people are angry toward us,

and we said, sometimes you need to say nothing.

We said, when you do speak, you need to speak with a

soft answer, and that's the emphasis we've placed. But I want us to realize in this session that

meekness does not mean that you don't stand up for the truth. Meekness does not mean that you don't

speak out against or confront error. Meekness does not mean that you passively stand by, whether in your marriage,

in your workplace, in your church, or in this world, that you passively stand by and let evil

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