Can Self-Care and Selfless Coexist?

Lisa Harper's Back Porch Theology

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Talk Radio, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 8 January 2024

⏱️ 68 minutes

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During today’s conversation on Back Porch Theology, we’re going to run further and faster in the thematic lane of giving ourselves away and talk about the healthy tension between self-care and selfless. One of my favorite pretend theological boyfriends, St. Augustine, said “Charity is a virtue which, when our affections are perfectly ordered, unites us to God. For by it, we love Him.” In other words, generosity for the sake of Christ actually accelerates our awareness of His unconditional love. Therefore, giving yourself away in a healthy, biblical context comes with the penultimate payoff of increased intimacy with God. It’s what can never honestly be said about the stock market – choosing to live a generous, God and others-oriented lifestyle also means our investment comes with a perfectly secure dividend. Which is the theme of Jesus’s message in Luke chapter 6: Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. Speaking of pouring, how about pouring yourself a big cup of coffee and grabbing your Bible - unless you’re still trying to figure out how to fit those newfangled LED Christmas lights back into the box they came in so you can finally cram all of the holiday trimmings back into the attic until next November, of course – and come hang out on the porch with Alli, Dr. Howard and me! Find Allison's new video Bible study at ChurchSource.com/Hidden. Join Team BPT at Convoy.org/BackPorch

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0:00.0	Access More.
0:04.0	During today's conversation on Back Porch theology, which we've titled Can self-care and self-less co-exist
0:16.0	we're going to run further and faster in the thematic lane of giving ourselves
0:20.5	away and we're gonna talk about the healthy tension between self-care
0:25.8	and selfless. One of my favorite pretend theological boyfriend, St. Augustine,
0:30.8	said charity is a virtue which when our affections are perfectly
0:35.3	ordered unites us to God, for by it we love Him. In other words, generosity for the
0:42.4	sake of Christ actually accelerates our
0:45.2	awareness of his unconditional love. Therefore, giving yourself away in a healthy
0:50.4	biblical context comes with a penultimate payoff of increased intimacy
0:56.6	with God. It's what can never be honestly said about the stock market.
1:01.0	Choosing to give a God and others oriented life also means our
1:04.0	investment comes with a perfectly secure dividend. And that's the theme of
1:09.4	Jesus message in Luke chapter 6-2. He says give and it will be given to you. A good
1:15.2	measure, press down, shaken together, and running over will be poured into your
1:19.9	lap. For with a measure you use, it will be measured to you.
1:25.0	Speaking of pouring, how about pouring yourself a big old cup of coffee and grabbing your Bible?
1:30.0	Unless you're still trying to figure out how to fit those newfangled LED Christmas lights back into the box they came in so you can finally cram all of the holiday trimmings back into the addict until next November of course and come hang out on the porch with
1:45.0	Ali, Dr Howard bagporters. My name is Allison Allen. I am the 5 foot 12 spiritual wingwoman to Lisa Harper for bagporesyology and Lisa. Here we are at the top of 2024.
2:03.0	I can't believe that.
2:05.0	No, I really can't.
2:06.0	I was thinking 2024.
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