EPISODE 6 When Faithful People Push Back

Series: You Cannot Love Jesus and Slander Catholics and Jews!

If you’re exhausted by conflict, tired of Christian arguments, worn out by comment wars, and you’re trying to follow King Jesus without compromising truth, this episode is for you. You opened your phone for peace, and your feed handed you another fight.

Most Christians think they defend truth. But what if sometimes we’re actually defending ourselves? If that stings a little, you’re not being condemned. You’re being invited, because correction in the Bible is often mercy, not rejection.

Picture Jerusalem at dusk. A courtyard. A crowd. A moment where covenant truth lands like a mirror. Some receive it with humility. Others resist because identity feels threatened. That pattern repeats in every generation of God’s people, and it is repeating right now.

Tonight’s Wednesday deep study walks through why correction often meets resistance, especially when faith becomes social identity. You will learn the difference between discernment and defensiveness, why pressure reveals formation, and how repentance, teshuvah, is not humiliation but mercy and return.

PRACTICAL POSTURE TEST

When challenged, do you pray first or post first?

Do you listen slowly or label quickly?

Do you defend ego, or defend hope with courtesy, respect, and a clear conscience?

Primary Bible texts: Proverbs 12:1, James 1:19 to 20, Hebrews 12:11, 1 Peter 3:15 to 16, 1 John 4:20.

Tell me in the comments: Have you ever felt personally attacked when God was actually refining you? Type yes or no, and if you want, tell me what set you off. I’ll read a few as we go.

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Can defending truth ever become spiritually destructive?
Sunday Night’s episode explores Mary, Israel, Catholic debates, and the biblical test Jesus gave: fruit. Not certainty. Fruit.

If your faith is meant to heal, not harm, this one matters.

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Episode 4: If This Hurt, Let’s Talk

A Pastoral Word to the Wounded, the Confused, and the Teachable

Series: You Cannot Love Jesus and Slander Catholics and Jews

If this series stung, it might not be because you were attacked. It might be because you were convicted. And conviction is not condemnation. Conviction is the King repairing what our words damaged.

In this Wednesday deep study, Dr. Shawn M. Greener walks you through the Bible’s covenant repair pattern, confession, correction, restitution, and re formation. This is not a vague call to “be nicer.” This is Torah level justice applied to modern Christian speech. In the Bible’s Ancient Near Eastern world, false witness is not just bad manners. It is community level injustice. It harms reputation, breaks trust, and endangers the vulnerable.

You will learn a practical verification tool you can use immediately, the Gate Test:

Who said this?

What is the evidence?

What is the full context?

What is my motive for sharing it?

You will also see Zacchaeus as the New Covenant model of measurable repentance that restores what was stolen and rebuilds trust. Because a follower of the Way does not only say, “I’m sorry.” A follower of the Way says, “I’m going to make it right.”

Primary Bible texts, side by side in the Lexham English Bible (LEB) and the Complete Jewish Study Bible (CJSB):

Deuteronomy 19:15–21

Numbers 5:5–7

Leviticus 5:14–6:7

Zechariah 8:16–17

Luke 19:1–10

Acts 17:11

Proverbs 18:17

Matthew 11:28–30

James 3:7–10

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What is one act of repair you will do this week, and what is one verification standard you will adopt before you share anything again?

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