Communities that love the truth will need to fight the tendency to self-deception. People who want to be good are most vulnerable. This clip is from Dr. Christine Pohl’s session on Truthfulness in the seminar “Cultivating Community and Worship: Practices that Define and Sustain Us” at the Robert E. Webber Institute for Worship Studies in June 2016.
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Listen to the entire session on Truthfulness: Living and Loving the Truth [32:38] (Download)
Overview: Choosing truthfulness in a culture of spin and exaggeration is difficult, and yet living and loving the truth are central to following Jesus. Learning to speak the truth in love is fundamental to building good communities and relationships, but often we struggle with the particular applications of this important practice.
Additional media from this seminar:
- Pohl Seminar Event Gallery
- Christine Pohl: Practices that Define and Sustain
- Christine Pohl: Gratitude
- Christine Pohl: Gratitude-Antidote to Spiritual Pornography
- Christine Pohl: Hindrances to Gratitude
- Christine Pohl: Entitlement and Grumbling
- Christine Pohl: Envy
- Christine Pohl: Fidelity
- Christine Pohl: Promises—Covenants or Contracts, Pt. 1
- Christine Pohl: Promises—Covenants or Contracts, Pt. 2
- Christine Pohl: Addressing the Difficulties of Promising
- Christine Pohl: Promising in a Culture of Open Options
- Christine Pohl: Promising and Obligation
- Christine Pohl: Broken Promises and Betrayal
- Christine Pohl: When Believers Devour
- Christine Pohl: Strengthening the Practice of Promising
- Christine Pohl: Truthfulness
- Christine Pohl: Self-Deception
- Christine Pohl: Truthful Communities
- Christine Pohl: Hospitality
- Christine Pohl: Who Is the Stranger?
- Christine Pohl: Challenges to Hospitality
- Christine Pohl: Hospitality As a Way of Life
- Christine Pohl: Hospitality and Social Ministry
- Christine Pohl Seminar Reflections
