posted Jan 13, 2014, 7:41 AM by Grant Garber
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updated Jan 28, 2015, 6:34 AM
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Main Thought Nothing has the capacity to bless or curse life like the human tongue. Every time we speak we are either building or destroying. - The more you really love someone, the more complicated it becomes to tell the truth. Why?
- We don’t want to hurt the people we love.
- We are torn between two conflicting truths.
- We don’t know the truth.
- Jesus had an amazing ability to speak with both compassion and conviction at the same time.
- Compassion: a devotion to be with the other and suffer
- Conviction: the expression of a truth that rises from the soul
- Be most careful with words when you are angry.
- Jesus got into a lot of conflict but never into an argument. He simply spoke the truth with great care.
- Only as we stay in a relationship can we struggle to discern the truth that is greater than either party knows on their own.
- Don’t try to excuse your explosive anger.
- Implosive anger is also dangerous. Imploders never erupt when angry. They quietly seethe. They act calm but are calmly churning as they keep long accounts.
- Evil talk includes both explosive and implosive anger, conviction without compassion, and it certainly includes gossip that does more to destroy people than anything else we can do to them.
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