A conversation with Chase Replogle about how Jesus handled offense.
There’s no way to not get offended. It will happen. We can’t control that part. All we can control is how we respond to that inevitable offense.
Satan has ensured there will be a trap of offense out there with our name on it.
Offense is one of the fews thing that Jesus guarantees. He doesn’t say if, but when you are offended.
And offense can either conceal or reveal depending on our response to it.
Jesus frequently took the risk of offense, not because he liked strife, but because he knew of the potential for offense to reveal. His goal was to cut open to a true problem underneath. But the cutting hurts, the offense is wounding. A surgeon and an assailant both use a knife, but one carefully uses it to heal, the other to wound.
And I’m grateful to Chase Replogle for his conversation about this topic from his excellent book A Sharp Compassion.
Here’s a little bit about Chase:
CHASE REPLOGLE is the pastor of Bent Oak Church in Springfield, Missouri. He’s the author of The 5 Masculine Instincts and A Sharp Compassion. He holds a degree in Biblical Studies and an M.A. in New Testament from The Assemblies of God Theological Seminary. A native of the Ozark woods, he enjoys being outdoors with his wife and two kids, sailing, playing the mandolin (badly), and quail hunting with his bird dog Millie.
This episode digs deeper into “skandala” (σκάνδαλα meaning ‘offenses’) in Luke 17:1.
Luke 17:1 - “Jesus said to his disciples: ‘Things that cause people to stumble are bound to come, but woe to anyone through whom they come.’” (NIV)
Mentioned:
Chase Replogle - www.chasereplogle.com
A Sharp Compassion - Chase Replogle
The 5 Masculine Instincts - Chase Replogle
Pastor Writer Podcast - Chase Replogle
“The Four Quartets” - T.S. Eliot
“The wounded surgeon plies the steelThat questions the distempered part;
Beneath the bleeding hands we feelThe sharp compassion of the healer’s artResolving the enigma of the fever chart.”
Mere Christianity - C.S. Lewis
Norman Centuries Podcast - Lars Brownworth
The Scandal of the Gospel - David McCracken
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
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Bammerhab Site:www.bammerhab.com
Bammerhab Substack:bammerhab.substack.com
SDG Morgan’s Substack: sdgmorgan.substack.com
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• Aaron Woodard for Graphic Design
• Dave Allam of Allam House for advanced audio techniques: sound.allamhouse.com
• Bible Hub for Greek / Hebrew hypertext links
