Muscular Christianity

Turning the other cheek is not a command to absorb the evil that is directed towards you. Rather, it's an admonishment to address it and reveal it for what it is. In this episode of "Muscular Christianity," we're going to look at the three primary passages that would have us be complicit with the offenses and assaults that are directed towards us and see how they fall short of an interpretation based on the whole of God's Word.

Turning the other cheek is not a command to absorb the evil that is directed towards you. Rather, it's an admonishment to address it and reveal it for what it is. In this episode of "Muscular Christianity," we're going to look at the three primary passages that would have us be complicit with the offenses and assaults that are directed towards us and see how they fall short of an interpretation based on the whole of God's Word.

Turning the other cheek is not a command to absorb the evil that is directed towards you. Rather, it's an admonishment to address it and reveal it for what it is. In this episode of "Muscular Christianity," we're going to look at the three primary passages that would have us be complicit with the offenses and assaults that are directed towards us and see how they fall short of an interpretation based on the whole of God's Word.

Turning the other cheek is not a command to absorb the evil that is directed towards you. Rather, it's an admonishment to address it and reveal it for what it is. In this episode of "Muscular Christianity," we're going to look at the three primary passages that would have us be complicit with the offenses and assaults that are directed towards us and see how they fall short of an interpretation based on the whole of God's Word.

While it's not always the case, more often than not when someone says, "That's your opinion," what they're really saying is, "I don't like what I'm hearing, but I can't disagree with you without sounding either selfish or absurd." Because they base their convictions on preferences more so than principles, they can't champion their perspective directly. So they avoid having to answer for the pain and problems that occur when their perspective is put into practice by manipulating the conversation in a way where you can't dispute their position without sounding as though you're denying them the right to have an opinion.

You can tell by the way you regard the reality of sin in your life whether or not you're born again.

There's more to believing in the death and resurrection of Christ than simply being able to say that you believe it out loud. To believe it in your heart means that's it's more than a historical truth, it's a personal reality.

According to the book of Romans, if you don't have the Spirit of Christ, you don't belong to Him. That's the bottom line: You've been forgiven for every offense you've committed against God and the Spirit of God is now living in you. That's what it means to be born again!

You can tell by the way you regard the reality of sin in your life whether or not you're born again.

There's more to believing in the death and resurrection of Christ than simply being able to say that you believe it out loud. To believe it in your heart means that's it's more than a historical truth, it's a personal reality.