S1E9 When we are ok with being imperfect

Have you ever felt the need to hide your imperfections, or mask the ways you don't get things right? Melissa and Rachel discuss the ways that they get things wrong, and it has blessed others when they've shared it. They also talk about how much it's encouraged them to see other people not be so perfect. They talk about what the Bible says on the topic and how we can learn from it.

Show Notes:

Verses: Phil 3:12-14 I don’t mean that I am exactly what God wants me to be. I have not yet reached that goal. But I continue trying to reach it and make it mine. That’s what Christ Jesus wants me to do. It is the reason he made me his. Brothers and sisters, I know that I still have a long way to go. But there is one thing I do: I forget what is in the past and try as hard as I can to reach the goal before me. I keep running hard toward the finish line to get the prize that is mine because God has called me through Christ Jesus to life up there in heaven.

Ecc 7:20 Surely there is no one on earth who always does good and never sins. But wisdom can make one person stronger than ten leaders in a city.

Galatians 6:2 Help each other with your troubles. When you do this, you are obeying the law of Christ.

Phil 2: 3-4 3 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, 4 not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.

James 5:16 So always tell each other the wrong things you have done. Then pray for each other. Do this so that God can heal you. Anyone who lives the way God wants can pray, and great things will happen.

Affirmation: Pretend perfection puts up real walls.

Challenge: Ask yourself, what harm can come from sharing our shortcomings with others? And how might doing so actually encourage those around me?