{"id":1630,"date":"2026-04-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/upliftingstar.com\/star1015denver\/2026\/04\/14\/interact-with-kindness\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T06:00:00","slug":"interact-with-kindness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/upliftingstar.com\/star1015denver\/2026\/04\/14\/interact-with-kindness\/","title":{"rendered":"Here’s Why You Need To Let Kindness Mark Every Interaction You Have With People"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Q: What do The Beatles<\/strong>, my parents<\/strong>, and the \u201994 Lakers<\/strong> have in common?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A: They couldn\u2019t stay together. They all broke up<\/strong>. They just couldn\u2019t make it work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is not abnormal. <\/strong>This is the natural state of things. Shaq and Kobe could\u2019ve dominated for a decade, but they couldn\u2019t stand each other<\/strong> anymore. The Beatles told us that all we need is love, but then they couldn\u2019t take it anymore and they broke up screaming. Things fall apart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s an old song called, \u201cBreaking Up is Hard to Do,\u201d and it has a point. You know what is harder though? Staying together<\/strong>. Every utopian project in the history of humankind has failed. Disintegration isn\u2019t remarkable. Entropy isn\u2019t remarkable. Disunity isn\u2019t remarkable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unity is remarkable.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is why I want to ask my fellow professing Christians to do something downright shocking<\/strong> in today\u2019s online environment:  Be radically charitable to your Christian brothers and sisters<\/strong>. Do not insult their intelligence. Do not mock them. Assume the best of their intentions. Do not belittle them. If you want to engage their ideas and disagree, do so. This needn\u2019t stop reasoned debate, but let kindness mark every exchange<\/strong>. Let it start with kindness and end with kindness. Here\u2019s why:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. The world is watching us. <\/strong>It would be a bolt of stunning grace from the blue if we actually modeled this. No one expects this. No one else is doing it. People would wonder how it is that we could possibly get along. What is making these \u201cChristians\u201d stick together? Everything else falls apart. So why don\u2019t they?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. Jesus said unity is what will prove to the world that we belong to Him.<\/strong> This is the very hallmark of who we are. Not our enlightened bumper stickers. Not our issue-of-the-day tweets Not our big church stage shows (In fact, a friend of mine had the temerity to suggest that perhaps we like big stage shows, political posturing, and debating issues so much because we are failing so bitterly at Jesus\u2019 priority of unity. She might be on to something).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unity forged on an absolute agreement is not supernatural<\/strong>. If we genuinely disagree, even vehemently disagree, yet model love and deference in all of our public and private communications, well, that\u2019s another thing entirely. I propose we all model this immediately. Again, this isn\u2019t rendering issues unimportant. This isn\u2019t short-circuiting debate. It\u2019s simply shaping how we do it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Look, I\u2019m a logic machine. I think quickly (A doctor friend of mine laughingly said he wants to avoid arguments with me for fear of again being \u201clogically pummeled\u201d). But if I have not love, I\u2019m a bunch of noise<\/a>. Things fall apart, but it\u2019s love that endures. <\/strong>As brutal as social media is, that\u2019s where people are. Maybe we could use it to demonstrate what a city on a hill looks like. <\/strong>Disagree with a brother or sister? It will happen, but these people are my family above all. After all, if someone else calls Jesus \u201cLord\u201d in this culture, it means something. If we agree on that, we may not vote together, but we can sing together, pray together and talk together in meaningful ways. Let\u2019s change our online approaches right now.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have a bond that\u2019s deeper than public policy<\/strong>, deeper than our misunderstandings<\/strong>, deeper than our wounds<\/strong>. Things fall apart\u2026 But we don\u2019t have to\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe is before all things, and in Him, all things hold together.\u201d \u2013 Paul, Colossians 1:17 NIV<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

B<\/a>rant Hansen<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Midday Show Host, STAR 99.1 | Listen Now<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Unity forged on an absolute agreement is not supernatural. If we genuinely disagree, even vehemently disagree, yet model love and deference in all of our public and private communications, well, that\u2019s another thing entirely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":1631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[24,28],"class_list":["post-1630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inspiration","tag-encouragement","tag-inspiration"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-13 14:46:25","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/upliftingstar.com\/star1015denver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/upliftingstar.com\/star1015denver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/upliftingstar.com\/star1015denver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upliftingstar.com\/star1015denver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upliftingstar.com\/star1015denver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/upliftingstar.com\/star1015denver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upliftingstar.com\/star1015denver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/upliftingstar.com\/star1015denver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upliftingstar.com\/star1015denver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upliftingstar.com\/star1015denver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}