Guarding Your Heart in a Culture of Offense
The Grace Response
Welcome to The Grace Response
We live in a culture that rewards outrage and calls it strength. Yet Jesus offers another way—a guarded, grace-filled heart that refuses to be ruled by offense. This study invites you to slow down, look inward, and learn how grace dismantles the traps that bitterness builds. Over the next five sessions, we’ll explore how offense begins, how it grows, and how God teaches us to respond with peace that protects, not pride that divides.
The Seed of Offense
The Grace Response — Week One: The Seed of Offense
Offense doesn’t always shout. Sometimes it starts as a quiet bruise that never gets addressed. Over time, it hardens, and we carry it without realizing how heavy it’s become.
This week in The Grace Response, we’re talking about what happens when that seed takes root and how grace can gently uproot what bitterness has planted.
You’ll learn why Jesus called offense a “trap,” how to guard your heart without building walls, and what it means to pause long enough to let grace speak first.
🕊️ Offense may be the seed, but grace is the gardener.