Season: 8 Episode: 105
Summary:
Love yourself first, take care of you, you’re enough … these are the messages of culture. Sadly, they are also the message in some Christian churches. Brooke talks about her own journey with self-love and why self-denial is what strengthens the everyday woman. Follow Brooke on social @thegorgeousgrace
Quotables:
“We don’t ned more self love. We need self denial.”
“You are designed to be your child’s mother; You are not designed to be their God.”
“Self love is settling for a lesser love.”
“I am enough is not the message. Jesus is the only one who should be giving the ‘I Am’ statements.”
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Apologetics Info
But before we get into today’s episode, I want to give you a heads up about our 2022 classes coming up. They start the last week in January. The registration will go LIVE for the classes on December 4th.
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I will continue to remind you on future episodes and on social media. There will be a bonus episode with all of the class details for you so you know what to expect and what each class holds.
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About Brooke
Brooke Tabor is a wife, a mother, social media faith-blogger and a recently graduated student from Liberty University with her Bachelors of Science in Religion/focus in Christian Counseling. Brooke uses her voice and heart to not only share her personal life’s journey in Christ, but also to encourage women to seek after God first hand. In a world where it is easy to access biblical theology and doctrine through a variety of sources (podcasts, social media, books etc.), Brooke states that secondhand faith has nothing on true, firsthand relationship that abides and walks with God. Brooke enjoys writing, reading, learning and talking about all things pertaining to theology and God’s word. To contact her personally, you can find her on Instagram @thegorgeousgrace or email at brookietabor@gmail.com.
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Question One
Why do you feel it’s important to bring awareness to the “self-love” message?
Question Two
I’m going to share your quote that I saw and loved. You said, “As a Christian, I must reject the cultural mantra that as a mom “I am enough”. If I were enough, my children would learn that mom fix all their problems – not that they need God.” This hit home for me because I remember the first time I realized my mom wasn’t perfect and she didn’t know everything. I told myself I would not let me boys grow up thinking I had all the answers. How did you learn this yourself?
Question Three
How do we balance the message of “I’m not enough” and the message that “Christ takes me as I am?” (There may be some theology in there, hopefully that’s not confusing). Sometimes that’s a hard balance … especially as moms who feel like we blow it when we yell at our kids or have to find the answer and don’t have it. We hear from culture that we are enough yet it is not easy to live that way.
Question Four
We are living in a heavily offended culture and much of that has to do with the message of ME. Meism, Meology … it’s all about how we feel. You have another quote (so good!!!) that says, “The point of the cross was not to save us from our fleshly feelings; the point of the cross was to save us from God Himself.” What spurred you to address emotionalism?
Question Five
You said, “We don’t need more self-love. We need more self-denial.” What does that look like?
Question Six
What advice would you give to the woman who’s attracted to the self-love message?
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