Hi, and welcome to Jesus Over Everything, a five-day-a-week variety show that mixes encouragement,

the Bible, practical how-toes, and fantastic guests for the listener on the go.

I'm Lisa Whittle, and I welcome you to just five minutes with me, which I trust and pray will be five

minutes well-spit.

I'm so excited about our month of shows, and especially because of the good work I think

we're going to be doing on here this month,

going to be diving into some of the lies we either tell ourselves or listen to, and then look to the

truth of the word that sets us free from those. Up today, a lie that keeps us from not only unity

in the body of Christ, but causes so many misunderstandings and disagreements, unnecessary hurts,

and personal isolation as well.

I'm glad to talk straight about it today, so let's do just that.

We're just too different. This is something I think we not only believe, but tell ourselves at time when it comes to why we don't

connect with certain people and why we don't allow ourselves to form a type of relationship with

them or even try to get to know them much less understand them at all. And it's not only detrimental,

but it's also fundamentally, I believe, not true. Sure, if we look at each other purely with a lens of physical differences

or maybe even circumstantial, we're going to see vast gaps in who someone else is compared to us.

But that's such a small way to measure humanity I've found. We're all born. We all die. We all cry

over things, get angry over things, laugh over things, and all of

us need God. So at the core, and in all of the important ways, we are really all the same. As well,

God sees us as no different. Genesis 1.27 is the most compelling verse for how he saw fit to make us

so similar. So God created mankind in his

own image. In the image of God, he created them, male and female, he created them. He didn't say

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