Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth says true virtue starts on the inside where no one else can see.

And if you have virtuous behavior without having a virtuous heart, you know what you will turn out to be?

A self-righteous, ferrisome.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamud, co-author of True Woman 101 for June 20th, 2018.

Virtue. It sounds like an outdated word that gets overused in religious circles.

Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth is about to challenge the definition of virtue for women both in and out of the church.

I'm so glad that you're walking with us through the True Woman Manifesto as we've been unpacking it over the past several months. And if you've missed any of those sessions, you'd like to go back, you can do that. You can listen to them. You can read the transcripts at revive our hearts.com. You can print off a PDF of the True Woman Manifesto. You can order a copy of the brochure that I'm holding in my hand. You can

order packs of those brochures to share with people in your church. And our hope is that tens of

thousands, 100,000 hungry-hearted women across this country and around the world will read this

manifesto prayerfully and carefully, say this expresses my heart desire not that

I've arrived or even close but this is the kind of woman I want to be and who will sign it

expressing that intent and then will by God's grace and the power of his Holy Spirit be committed

to living it out and sharing it with others well today, today we come to the sixth we will statement.

It says we will seek to glorify God by cultivating such virtues as purity, modesty,

submission, meekness, and love.

Now, sometimes when I'm preparing to teach, I will get together with a small group of women.

This time we did it by means of a conference call. And I try to get women from different seasons of life,

and I walk through what I'm going to be teaching, the topics, and I ask these women for input.

And so on this particular call where we were discussing this statement in the manifesto, we had a 20-something single woman and a number of other women as well.

And when I read these words, we will seek to glorify God by cultivating such virtues as purity, modesty, submission, meekness, and love, these women said to me, do you realize how scary those words are to a lot of women today?

And especially for younger women, the 20-something woman on our call said, those words have a negative connotation.

Now, I was reading this and I'm thinking, these are beautiful words.

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