Welcome to the Feminine podcast. This is Nancy Wilson. Thanks so much for joining me today.

Today I thought I would cover the topic of good manners and courtesy. And I hope both moms and daughters, even some of the really young ones,

will appreciate this topic. It's still important today in this very casual culture of ours.

In fact, I think it's even more important because we want to keep good manners from completely eroding

away. And not because some fussers want to maintain a

polite society, but because courtesy is a Christian virtue. And we're Christians. So we're just

applying God's principles in how we treat one another. Courtesy is simply showing consideration for other people. It's putting other

people first. Philippians 2.4 says let each of you look out not only for his own interests,

but also for the interests of others. And that's just such a good guiding principles. And there's so many applications to this,

but I'm going to limit myself to good manners when you are a guest. This is especially important

in a hospitable church culture where you're often either a guest or a host. In our community,

there are many weekly applications of exercising courtesy,

and of course, the most important one every week is worship. So I thought, well, why not just

mention a few things about courtesy when we gather to worship? And then we'll spread it out and

apply it to all the lesser events. First of all, remember,

someone and probably quite a number of people have prepared for you. And though worship is not the

same as going to a home for dinner, we are gathering in God's house and he is feeding us.

And this means that worship is where courtesy and manners are really of the utmost importance.

And it's a big family, I understand, but it means courtesy going in all directions.

So here's just a few considerations.

First, I think it's just preparation. It's just good to be like heads up. Tomorrow's worship. What do I need to do to get myself ready and out the door? Oh man, depending on the stage you're in, sometimes I was do a lot of prep for breakfast before I went to bed and get everybody's clothes ready. So all they had to do was get themselves ready and not run around trying to find

shoes. Different stages. Obviously, they were pretty little when I was doing that. But we do want to

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