Dr. Juli Slattery

What if they just read a paragraph and they made all kinds of assumptions based on what somebody said?

And it's happened multiple times.

That doesn't feel good to not be understood for my heart and where I'm coming from, my love for Jesus.

Yeah.

And even being able to have grace for getting it wrong sometimes.

So for me, that was like, man, if I don't like that, how do I love other people the way that I want to be loved?

Which is the golden rule.

How do I show them the same grace and mercy?

that i want to experience and so i think we've got to be really careful not to ever take people out of context not just to throw grenades at them whether it's in personal conversation or on social media or in a more public way i think also talking in terms of

Like scripture is very clear in some things and we need to stand in those things.

But beyond that, I think we need to use terms like my conviction is instead of, you know, like this is what you should believe.

Instead of thus says the Lord.

Yeah.

This is a hard thing, but I've studied the scripture or I've wrestled through this.

This is where my conviction is.

And we see in scripture that there's a lot of room for that.

It's like if something violates your conscience, it's wrong to you.

Yeah.

And so like another topic is masturbation.

You know, it's like there are some people who feel like I'm convicted that that's always wrong.