The Trap Of Offense In Ministry

Gospel-Centered Pro-Life Podcast

Love Life

Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 25 August 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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There are many things that the devil uses to discourage and distract us from what God has called us to. One of the enemy's most effective tools is offense. If we harbor offense and bitterness it can be very destructive to us and to those we minister with as well as those we minister to. In this episode, we talk about the trap of offense, and how to deal with and avoid it. https://sidewalks4life.com/equipping-articles/

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0:00.0	Now let's not forget, Jesus Christ died for the Pharisees as well.
0:04.8	Right. Right. So he didn't hold bitterness in his heart and withhold good,
0:09.5	because that's ultimately what happens. When you hold bitterness or offense in your heart,
0:13.1	it becomes a reader bitterness. You end up withholding good from the people that you should do good to.
0:18.0	We end up doing the very thing Jesus said not to do. When we're offended and we have a
0:22.0	reader bitterness, you know how it says that we should do unto others as we have them to do unto us.
0:26.4	When we get bitterness and offense in our hearts, we oftentimes do the opposite.
0:41.6	Welcome to the Gospel Center Pro-Life podcast, a podcast designed to equip,
0:46.0	encourage and challenge you in Pro-Life ministry and always with a focus on the gospel. Stay tuned.
1:05.2	Welcome back to the Gospel Center Pro-Life podcast. Appreciate you as joining us as always and I am here
1:11.2	to Daniel Parks with Vicki Cassiore. Hey everybody. How are you doing? I'm sure everybody's doing
1:17.6	great because they get to hear from us again. Lucky them. Lucky them. Though there is no such thing as
1:23.1	luck. That's right. Right. Just want to throw that up. What would be the alternative then? They are
1:28.4	so blessed. Blessed. Yeah. They're blessed. They're blessed. Yes. Amen. Well, this topic hopefully
1:36.4	will be a blessing. Hopefully by the end of this episode, you guys won't be offended. I know.
1:42.6	We talk about. Yeah. Because we're going to be talking about offense. We're going to be talking about
1:48.4	how in ministry there is this trap of offense or actually had a conversation yesterday with one
1:55.2	of the guys in the office that said I was saying it wrong. I was saying offense. He was saying that's
2:00.4	what you do when you're playing football. This is offense. I'm trying not to be offended or offended
2:07.6	by that and say it right. I have a little fun with that but this is a very, very serious subject.
2:16.1	It is. It is. This is a good portion of this is from the book The Beat of Satan. Yeah. Good
2:23.4	book. Yes. Excellent book. He makes the point the author John Bevere or it could be Bevere.
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