Graceologie #66 with Sharon Hodde Miller
GRACEOLOGIE with Gwen Smith
Gwen Smith
4.8 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 25 October 2019
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Sharon Hodde Miller joins me for episode #66 to talk about why we love to be liked and why God calls us to more!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to the Graceology with Gwen Smith podcast. I'm Gwen Smith and I am so glad you've joined me today. Around here we have fun, faith-focused, grace-filled conversations, all to help you know and trust God more. Our discussions are honest, often humorous, and always practical. |
| 0:23.8 | And they're going to encourage you in meaningful ways to live out and lean on the grace of Jesus |
| 0:29.2 | in the midst of cluttered messy days. You got any of those? I know I do, and I can't wait to get to |
| 0:35.9 | today's conversation, which is all about why we love to be liked and why God calls us to more. |
| 0:43.8 | My guest today is Sharon Hottie Miller. |
| 0:46.2 | Sharon leads Bright City Church in Durham, North Carolina with her pastor-husband, Ike. |
| 0:51.3 | She's an author, a speaker, and she holds a PhD on women in calling, but she |
| 0:56.8 | spends most of her days with her three young kids. In this episode, she and I talk about the |
| 1:01.4 | message of her latest book, Nice. In a society that places enormous value on being nice, |
| 1:08.7 | Sharon says that the church has deemed niceness of virtue and ultimately |
| 1:13.6 | has allowed it to become an idol. In place of real Christ-like courage, kindness, conviction, |
| 1:19.6 | and discipline, many people fall into traps of people-pleasing, popularity contests, and manufactured |
| 1:25.6 | joy in exchange for likability. |
| 1:29.2 | Sharon gives us a unique and refreshing gift today |
| 1:31.7 | by directing our hearts to work through our tendencies towards niceness as a false social contract. |
| 1:37.8 | And she's going to challenge your understanding of the false virtue, summing it up this way. |
| 1:42.6 | Jesus doesn't need us to be nice. |
| 1:44.9 | Instead, he promises that if we can ditch our nice tendencies and be honest about our brokenness, |
| 1:50.8 | our hopes, our dreams, and all of the ways we need him, there's life to be had, even life |
| 1:56.3 | to the full. Well, hi, Sharon. I'm super excited to have you on the Graceology podcast today. Welcome. |
| 2:14.9 | Thank you. I'm excited to be here with you i am excited to have you well around here |
| 2:21.0 | one of the things we do with our guests is i do a fast fun favorites round to help us get to know you |
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