S02 Episode 04: The Art of Loving (with Chris Benzinger and Jake Khym)
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4.9 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2017
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Chris Benzinger and Jake Khym are back as our guests as we talk about the art of loving well. We journey into the topics of recognizing one another's stories, championing dreams, how to bring the questions of our identity to God and fighting for (not against!) the ones we love.
One Thing We Love This Week:
- Chris's One thing - The word "fierce"
- Michelle's One thing - 33 Days to Merciful Love, Michael E.Gaitley, MIC
- Sr. Miriam's One thing - Fall candles
- Heather's One thing - The Storybook Bible
- Jake's One thing - "When the Soul Listens: Finding Rest and Direction in Contemplative Prayer" by Jan Johnson
Group Questions
- Have you changed how you love or think of someone after hearing their story?
- What would it look like to love someone close to you without expecting them to fill all your needs?
- How can you champion the dreams of someone dear to you?
Journaling Questions
- What are the things that hold me back the most from loving well?
- Do I believe that God desires to restore & heal me?
- How have I expected people to love me in a way that only God can?
Quote to Ponder
"Love the Lord your God, and love one another. love one another as He loves. Love with strength and purpose and passion and no matter what comes against you. Don't weaken. stand against the darkness, and love. That's the way back into eden. That's the way" - Francine Rivers
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Pasco Media Production. Please visit PascoMedia.com. |
| 0:07.0 | Hello and welcome to the Abiding Together Podcast where we desire to provide a place of connection, |
| 0:21.4 | rest and encouragement for men and women who are on the journey of living out their passion |
| 0:25.0 | and purpose in Jesus Christ like we are. My name is Sister Miriam James and once again, |
| 0:29.7 | as usual I have my lovely friends with me Heather Kim and Michelle Benzinger and we also |
| 0:35.0 | have our two special guests. There was such a rave, Heather there was such a rave response |
| 0:39.2 | to the men on the show that we had to bring them back for around to. What do you think? |
| 0:43.5 | Yes, I thought it was wonderful to have them as our first guests and now they are our second guest. |
| 0:51.0 | It's kind of easy when they are. We welcome back Jake Kim and Chris Benzinger, the husband of Michelle |
| 1:00.8 | and Heather and we are just delighted to have them with us today and today we are going to talk about |
| 1:05.0 | how to love one another. How do you love well? How do you become a good lover in all the different |
| 1:10.0 | ways that God is calling us to love and he is love so he is calling us to walk along that path. |
| 1:14.8 | We are going to talk about several different ways to do that. Michelle, we were talking about |
| 1:20.5 | where do we go from here and our identity and things like that. When you think about how do we |
| 1:27.1 | love one another, what was some of the things that really sticks out to you because I know this |
| 1:30.6 | was a topic near to your heart when we were talking about show topics this season. |
| 1:36.7 | How do I feel about it? It's interesting because when I brought this topic up, I thought it |
| 1:41.2 | was really good. But now over the last couple of days that I've had we've had, I've just been |
| 1:48.5 | really convicted about how poorly I love. So yesterday last night when we were texting back and forth |
| 1:54.5 | about recording times, I was like, can I call and stick for tomorrow's episode please? And so can I |
| 2:00.7 | just, yeah, not do this because like I said before in the earlier podcast, like marriage and |
| 2:07.6 | parenting and just life on planet earth is a school of love. And I keep on feeling like I have to |
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