Our lives were meant to exceed what a natural course of events could explain. That goes for you even if you earned a doctorate. To live the life we long for, we want people around us to recognize with their chins dropped that we have something beyond what our education and training can explain. We'll slit the throat of our own satisfaction with the silky smooth feather of self-focus.
We'll never catch a glimpse of vision with our eyes rolled back in our heads. Self-importance turns out to be self-sabotage and getting over ourselves turns into finding ourselves. We do, but as they say, therein lies the paradox.
That's not to say we don't lay some things down and make some sacrifices on the path of following Jesus. He's taken shame from me, frequent defeat, paralyzing fear, debilitating guilt, and chronic regret. For Moore, the Southern Baptist Convention was her family. the Body of Christ 2) she’s claiming extra-biblical revelation via a literal vision God showed her, and 3) it supposedly enabled her to see the Church as Jesus sees it. It's not that Jesus has never taken anything from me because He has. Her work as a Bible teacher has permeated down to small church Bible study groups and sold-out stadiums with her Living Proof Live events. To anyone but someone blinded by devotion to Beth the following is crystal clear: 1) Moore is speaking of the universal Church, i.e. Our perception of Jesus is sketched on the canvas in a pencil swayed strongly by this point of view: do we see Him as a giver or a taker? Naturally, the only healthy inclination is to flee from a taker and run to a giver.
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