BECOMING True | Pastor Paul Arthurs

When my wife was an impressionable adolescent, she was compared to her older sister, who happened to be very petite. Fiona was known as “The Big One,” by adults that lacked the sensitivity needed to build the self worth of a beautiful young girl simply trying to discover her place in the world. These words pierced like needles designed to inject toxin into a vulnerable identity during the heart of its formation. Fiona would spend years imprisoned by uninformed opinions into her adult life; obsessed with her weight, totally at the mercy of any negative word regarding her person, and utterly helpless against any diet, pill or starvation plan to be thin. Only after she discovered freedom in Christ from the words that shaped her self perception was she able to see the truth of who she was when looking back at her high school pictures. She is now able to recognize that she didn’t remotely have a problem in that area. Her identity and emotions had been affected by the words of well-intended people that were simply untrue.
In a time when there are a plethora of voices, pontificating sanctimonious platitudes that seem convincing, it is imperative that we develop an intimate relationship with The Truth.

Thank you for joining us on this journey of BECOMING!

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