Episode 275: When Someone Else’s Choices Cost You
About this episode
Dot and Cara discuss the impact of others' choices on our lives and the importance of grace and discernment.
Ever feel like collateral damage in someone else's bad decision? That's exactly where Dot and Cara picked up this week, continuing last week's conversation about counting the cost, but this time turning to what happens when someone else's choices end up costing you. They talk through the real difference between discernment and judgment, and why grace means giving someone what they don't deserve, even when their decisions land hard on the people who love them. Pull up a chair, grab your Bible, and lean in with us. Got a question about today’s episode or something else you’d like to hear us talk about on the show? Let us know ! Episode Recap Intro (00:00) Write this down: 1 Corinthians 10:12-13, the promise that God won't let you be tempted beyond what you can bear (00:00) Picking up where last week left off, but this time it's not our choices costing us, it's everyone else's (00:34) Cara names a feeling so many of us carry: being collateral damage in someone else's decisions (01:29) "Take heed lest he fall" isn't a warning about other people, it's a check on our own pride (05:01) Why it's not our job to decide what someone else's walk with God should look like, since there's only…
People in this episode
Host: Dot Bowen
Guest: Cara
Topics covered
- collateral damage
- discernment
- judgment
- grace
- choices
- love
- prayer
Keywords
- collateral damage
- bad decisions
- discernment
- judgment
- grace
- prayer
- love
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: 1 Corinthians 10:12-13
More episodes of Write this Down! with Dot Bowen
- Episode 278: Are We Fighting the Wrong Battle?
- Episode 277: If God Never Did Another Thing…
- Episode 276: The Things We Won't Let Go
- Episode 274: Counting the Cost: Every Yes Is a No
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