Righteous Anger by Lynda Williams5/23/2023 I’m wondering if that last phrase is connected to your overwhelming emphasis in your ministry on delighting in God and desiring God. Anger is not just a relationship destroyer it is a self-destroyer. I have seen the destructive power of anger in relationships, especially marriage, to such a degree over the last forty to fifty years that I am far less sanguine about so-called righteous anger than I once was. I was much more optimistic about a righteous place for anger when I was 30 than I am now. But later you were asked about the distinction between unholy anger and holy anger. It witnesses to the world the degree of such an injustice. And then those staunch positions, and the resulting strong language, is justified by Christians in terms of righteous anger - like Jesus flipping tables and not sinning.Ī long time back, in an episode on abortion, APJ 672, you made a case for using righteous anger to call out the evil of killing the unborn. “Pastor John, hello and thank you for this podcast! I think we are living in an age where Christians are taking hard stances on just about anything and everything, making decisions about vaccines and politicians and masks - decisions all held with unflexing, biblical conviction. Does holy anger kill our delight in God? It’s a good question from Matt, a listener in Wisconsin.
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