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The Jennie Allen Podcast

S3: 11 - Self-Importance vs. Humility

The Jennie Allen Podcast

Jennie Allen

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.96.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Are you tired of trying to measure up and matter in life? Self-importance feels so good, it's deep in our bones to crave it and fight for it. We chase it in different ways every day. And it's an exhausting pursuit. Let's see what Scripture says, the power given to us to fight it, and the simple way forward into a whole new way of living. Download the FREE Get Out of Your Head book club kit: jennieallen.com Listen to Scripture wherever you go with the Dwell app: https://dwellapp.io/jennie

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0:00.0

How many of you are tired of trying to matter? I'm telling you we don't have to live this way.

0:04.4

Welcome to the Maid for this podcast. This is Jenny Allen. Let's go. Hey if you are reading get out of your headbook along with us as we listen to

0:20.0

this podcast make sure to get a couple extra copies and go to Jenny Allen.com to download the free

0:25.6

get out of your head book club kit. We have made it super simple for you. All you

0:29.8

have to do is text a few friends, get your copies of the book, download the PDF, and you guys are

0:34.9

on your way to a 10-week journey to stopping the spiral of your toxic thoughts.

0:39.1

So make sure to head over there and download it today. Okay, Jenny, so we are several weeks in. We've been talking about these different

0:56.1

enemies of the mind and so today you are covering self-importance. Why was that

1:00.9

one that stood out to you as something we battle in our generation?

1:04.2

Yeah, so I want to talk about big picture again remind everybody where we are.

1:07.2

We are talking about what I believe are enemies of our mind in our generation.

1:10.8

Now some of these like cynicism I really don't see in Zach's grandparents like he fought in World generation. Now some of these like cynicism I really don't see in

1:13.0

exact grandparents like he fought in World War II and I mean he's just not

1:16.5

cynical and he should be so I really see a lot of these as unique to our

1:20.8

generation I'm not saying they're unique like it's never been felt before or never been done before.

1:24.9

I mean we look back at we're going to talk about the Tower Babble.

1:27.1

Like this is, none of this is new.

1:28.9

But I do see them as strategically rampant in our generation.

1:33.0

So when I think of self-importance,

1:34.3

we live in a world where everybody can be somewhat important.

1:37.1

We all get a microphone.

1:38.7

We all can, you know, start a YouTube channel

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