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Feeling Things with Amy & Kat

A Bacon-Loving, Hebrew-Speaking Jew Steps Into A Church

Feeling Things with Amy & Kat

Nashville Podcast Network

Relationships, Education, Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Fashion & Beauty, Arts

4.95.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

In this next episode Leanne takes you on an unexpected and deeply personal journey of spiritual discovery. She shares a bit about her upbringing, and what caused her to feel a yearning for something more, leading her to explore her own spiritual path. She emphasizes the importance of embracing one's unique journey and adapting language to fit your own personal experiences and beliefs.

Throughout the episode, Leanne explores the diverse paths to faith, drawing from her experiences working with clients from various backgrounds who grapple with their relationship with their own connection with God and spirituality. She reflects on the power of words and the significance of inner experiences over specific faith-based terminology. Leanne's connection to her Jewish heritage and love for Israel sets the stage for a twist of fate that propels her toward faith, highlighting the transformative power of surrender and the impact of worship music.

The episode truly comes to a head when Leanne shares a pivotal moment on a paddleboard, where a song's lyrics lead her to straight to her knees, praying for help and discovering a deeper sense of the concept of "surrender" she had been searching for. This experience prompted her to make a brave and profound transition from the fitness industry to a faith-based approach to emotional transformation, ultimately trusting in God's guidance (even if she wasn't calling that presence 'God' at the time).


Leanne shows us the importance of stepping into the unknown, embracing uncertainty, and finding trust in God, even when the concept is new. As she explores Christianity and attends Crosspoint Church in Nashville, her open-hearted approach to worship music and teachings shows us that there is this universal search for connection and completeness.

HOST: @LeanneEllington

To learn more about Leanne, head over to www.LeanneEllington.com, and to share your to share your thoughts, questions, feedback, or guest suggestions instantly, head on over to www.WhatsGodGotToDoWithIt.com.


What's God Got to Do With It is an iHeartRadio podcast on the Amy Brown Podcast network. It's written and hosted by Leanne Ellington, Executive Produced by Elizabeth Fazio, Post Production and Editing by Houston Tilley, and Original music written by Cheryl Stark & produced by Adam Stark.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Transcript

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0:00.0

If you want to go on a journey, if you want to go on a journey if you're skeptical

0:12.1

don't worry not here to preach on a journey if you're skeptical don't worry not here to preach gonna keep it clean and talk

0:16.0

miracles where faith meets all the nature get in touch with your creator with a bacon loving Jew.

0:25.0

She even speaks Hebrew.

0:27.0

What's got to do with it?

0:30.0

What's got to do with it?

0:35.0

There's no separation when we're talking transformation.

0:40.0

What's got to do with it? So we are back and I'm going to share how and why this bacon-love and Hebrew speaking Jew randomly walked into a Christian church a few years ago, but before we get into that,

0:55.6

I want to come back to this idea of emptying your cup, and for now I just want to again invite

1:01.1

you to forget about everything you think you know, what you think

1:04.9

you don't know, or what you think you might not even be interested in knowing, and just

1:09.7

open your mind and your heart and your spirit to possibility.

1:13.6

And the reason I am and will be reiterating that over and over again

1:18.4

is because that's what I needed to hear.

1:21.2

I needed permission to just try things on and soak things in and chew on ideas at my own pace without

1:28.6

being pressured or persuaded or having someone try to convert me because Lord knows that would have just pushed me away.

1:36.2

And I remember hearing about this concept of seeing things with childlike wonder, which totally

1:41.3

resonated with me when I first started exploring, but also this idea of renewing my mind.

1:46.7

And I'll definitely come back to both of those concepts.

1:49.7

But also just keep in mind, my time without God was a lot longer than my time with God.

1:56.4

And if you think that you're cynical or skeptical or far gone or broken, I felt all of those things too at some point in time and heck I felt

2:05.6

those things for most of my life if I'm honest and that's why again I'm

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