Ignore Michelle Obama, Become A Ruling Family
The Family Teams Podcast
Jeff Bethke
4.8 • 707 Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
The natural, Biblical progression for a woman's life is to go from Maiden to Mother to Matriarch.
Each of these are seasons, and they're glorious in the way God guides us through them.
But...our culture HATES that last step.
Nobody is aspiring to grandmotherhood. The idea seems to be to go BACK to maiden after motherhood.
In this episode, Jeremy and April break down Michelle Obama's recent comments, the destructive nature of "therapy culture", and how it's impacting the way young women are interacting with religion.
On this episode, we talk about:
0:00 Intro
1:53 Michelle Obama vs. Matriarchy
7:37 A wife and grandmother's perspective
16:14 Becoming one with your spouse
24:04 First time in history young women are less religious than young men
33:23 How young moms can resist the worldly temptation to put themselves first
39:12 The modern self-obsessed culture is the opposite of Jesus' teaching
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Resources Mentioned:
1000 Households Discipleship: https://1kh.org
Michelle Obama Clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axWovz0V_Kw
Modern Wisdom Podcast Clip: https://www.instagram.com/p/DIUKUFrN3u6/
Family Revision by Jeremy Pryor: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0578526123/
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| 0:00.0 | Imagine what we're comparing. |
| 0:01.6 | We're comparing someone who had the power of life and death over millions of people, |
| 0:06.1 | had the ability to bless or hurt millions or, I guess, even billions of people. |
| 0:12.1 | And when they look at that, they don't see that as being the pinnacle. |
| 0:16.6 | No, now that I've got the ability to go out with my girlfriend. You know, this is really the point. |
| 0:21.6 | I got to tell you guys, it's so fragile. |
| 0:24.6 | Like, the fact that Barack and Michelle stayed married with this philosophy is quite an achievement. |
| 0:30.6 | So this podcast is really by way of warning. |
| 0:33.6 | Like, this is a really dangerous path for families to go down. |
| 0:44.1 | Hi, welcome to the Family Teams podcast. Our goal here is to help your family become a multi-generational team on mission by providing you with biblically rooted concepts, tools, |
| 0:49.6 | and rhythms. Your hosts are Jeremy Pryor and Jefferson Bethke, and we can't wait to chat about all things family. |
| 0:56.8 | Hey, everybody. Welcome back to the podcast. I'm here with my lovely wife, April. |
| 1:00.4 | April who just completed, what is it, 48 hours of discipleship getaway. |
| 1:06.6 | Just did a kickoff retreat. So exciting. |
| 1:10.0 | Yes. Yeah. So one of the things we learned doing |
| 1:13.3 | youth ministry is that you can get six months worth of relational slash teaching done in one weekend |
| 1:21.7 | that would take like six months to do in a bunch of like disconnected teaching times weekly. |
| 1:28.9 | Yeah. So yeah, we're a huge fan of like how do we how do we make discipleship life on life |
| 1:33.5 | and how do we make it work? And so both April and I practice, you know, taking multiple |
| 1:38.5 | different groups of apprentices through a disciple making season every year and it always starts with a immersive |
| 1:47.8 | sort of kickoff. This is the first time we've ever done in the house. So that was fun. |
| 1:51.1 | Yeah, that was really fun. Yeah. Man. So good. So good to like open our lives to people and really |
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