Being offended is a national sport! Everyone is so thin-skinned. If you doubt it, let me ask you: what offends you? I’ll bet you didn’t have to think about that very long!

What if Christians were known as people who were unoffendable? What if we were hard to offend, and when we did get offended, we didn’t hang on to it long, but just let it go? How much happier and lighter would you be if you weren’t packing around a bunch of offenses?

May 18-19, 2019

Introduction and offering:

ILL: Brant Hansen opens his book, Unoffendable, with a story about being at a business meeting and hearing a speaker say, “You can choose to be unoffendable.” He writes:

“I remember the guy saying it’s a choice we can make, to just choose not to be offended.

Sure… Just—you know—choose, as if it’s really just up to us.

I found this offensive.”

Being offended has become a national sport. We’re all so thin-skinned now. It doesn’t take much to offend us.

ILL: Pastor Ed Rowell tells this story:

During a recent baptism, I paraphrased a passage of Scripture to fit the situation: “If anyone is in Christ, he or she is a new creature in Christ.” (I was baptizing a young woman.)

The next morning, I was going through the cards we use for prayer requests. Suddenly one of them nailed me, by name, for “daring to change the infallible, inerrant, unchangeable Word of God. When the Bible says ‘he,’ it means ‘he’…to change it to fit your rampant feminist agenda is the worst kind of heresy.”

Most days I would have tossed