If you spend any time on social media, you know how toxic that environment can be.

Every day it seems like someone is being canceled.

Controversies abound, trolls run rampant, and seemingly normal men and women, Christian men and women,

hurl insults and jabs and accusations at one another. What's going on? Where is all this

anger, division, and mockery coming from? And what does it say about our hearts? In our interview today,

I'm talking with Paul Tripp about how we, as God's people, should think about the reactive culture

in which we live, and how to make sure

that we're not part of the problem. Paul's new book is called reactivity, how the gospel

transforms our actions and reactions from Crossway. Let's get started. Well, Paul, thanks for

joining me again on the Crossplay podcast.

I'm excited that we have a chance to talk.

Yeah, today we're going to talk about the reactionary, the charged culture in which we live that surrounds us, both inside and outside the church.

And by my count, this is our sixth interview together.

I think you hold the record for the most interviews.

But in some ways, this feels the most timely and the most pressing to me.

Do you resonate with that feeling?

Yeah, I think, obviously, because I'm trying to write the gospel into everyday life, the gospel in the streets,

I always want a book to feel current and timely,

but this one addresses something that I think is this moment at a level of real importance.

Yeah, it's fascinating because it is incredibly timely. It's hard not to look

around and every day feel like there's a new person or situation or decision that we should all be

outraged about. And yet, this is not a new phenomenon since Eden. We have been reactionary beings in our sinfulness. But you do say that

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