Biblical Womanhood v. Cultural Womanhood (s. 2, ep. 12)
Grab your latte & let's chat purpose. Listen In On Spotify | Pocket Casts | Anchor | Apple Podcasts season 2, Episode 12 Biblical Womanhood versus Cultural Womanhood Have you ever wondered what Biblical womanhood looks like? I sat down with Bethany...
How To Help A Friend Who’s Hurting
In 2 Corinthians 1, the Bible gives an incredible explanation on the purpose of pain and suffering.
It’s a section that has HEALED my heart drastically from pain and suffering in my own life.
But recently, I noticed another perspective it leaves about suffering in the middle of the chapter: how to be a good community to someone who is suffering.
In his suffering, Paul tells the recipients of his letters one thing that he wants from them: prayer.
2 Corinthians 1:11 says, “You also must help us by prayer, so that many will give thanks on our behalf for the blessing granted us through the prayers of many.”
PRAYER.
And he seems to really believe it’ll make an impact when he says blessings will come THROUGH those prayers.
Before I continue, there are other ways to help our friends who are suffering, hurting and going through the thick of it.
In my own suffering seasons, I cherished people who would sit with me as I cried, who cried with me, and who stuck with me through it. I cherished people who simply were THERE for me.
BUT …
5 Ways to Find Community
COMMUNITY. It’s been the topic of our insta all week long. We’ve blogged about it, posted about it and then we threw out an instagram poll.
We LOVE your vulnerability and raw responses, but we noticed something MAJOR. Most of our poll takers said they don’t feel like they have a SOLID community.
We believe that there is such purpose in community and that a solid community can help build and encourage us in our purposes, so Becca and I collaborated on some of our thoughts on just how to bring about and foster community.
Embracing Your Community
I used to think that the only way I could find my purpose in life was if I figured it out all by myself.
Don’t get me wrong, some of that needs to be hashed out personally between Jesus and I, but I’ve come to the beautiful realization that He created us for community.
I’ve found way more purpose than I ever would have imagined in these past months just because of who I decided to surround myself with: passionate Jesus followers who live a life defined by the purposes and GOOD things He has for us by being aware of its personal and corporate effects.
A life without community is simply not how God intended us to live.