pour it straight into the gutter, quenching the thirst of no one and creating no fruit. This trap needs to be exposed, and God’s people need to be set free. One caveat before we begin. Some use the label toxic much too broadly as an excuse to avoid difficult, different, or hurting people. Let’s not do that. As we’ll see in chapters 3–5, toxic has a special designation that we can learn to discern and then manage accordingly. Yet there are naive Christians who aren’t on the lookout for any toxicity