S5E6: Shame and the Biblical Narrative

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🗓️ 31 August 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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At the heart of all that the Bible is lies a story. Yes, a story about humans and all that we are. But even more so, a story about a God and who he is. In many ways, the bible is the story that God is telling about us. Given what we have learned thus far about how shame infects the way we tell stories to gain the upper hand, we don’t just need a better story. We need a better storyteller. Join us for this episode where we’ll see that the biblical narrative is not just some feel-good fairy tale. It’s the hardest, most beautiful story you’ve ever heard. And evil is working overtime, using shame to keep you from hearing the story that God is telling you about you—and the world of beauty and goodness in which you are to play a central role.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Being Known Podcast with my friend Dr. Kurt Thompson.
0:17.0	My friend, Pepper Sweeney.
0:19.0	We are here to discover and explore what it means to be truly known.
0:24.0	Hey Kurt.
0:25.0	Hey, Pat.
0:26.4	You know, I am really enjoying this season
0:29.9	and in no small part because we are talking about your book The Soul of Shame and I want to
0:36.3	implore our listeners to pull it off your bookshelf if you already have it or go out and
0:41.8	purchase it. The podcast and the book make great
0:44.8	companions. You'll get a lot more out of it if you're doing both. So I want to just
0:48.6	encourage you to do that. And today we are on Chapter five of the soul of shame and Kurt's going to be talking
0:56.1	about with us about shame and the biblical narrative.
0:59.7	Yeah you know in the last episode, Pep, we talked about this notion of storytelling, and
1:07.0	any time we think about the Bible, and if you were to poll 100 people, you know, they might, you know, what is the Bible or what do you think of it?
1:16.2	I don't know how many people would say, well, I think it's really, it's a way for humans, for God and humans to tell our story of each other together.
1:31.0	And you know, it's like on when you have research projects you have a, you know, your principal
1:37.4	author, or your principal investigator, your PI, your lead author. And we might say that, you know, the Bible is a,
1:47.6	is a, it's lots of things, right? It's history, it's poetry, it's instruction, it's, you know, a lot of things, but at its heart, it is a story of God's relationship with us.
2:01.0	And God is the primary storyteller. Now he invites us to be part of we respond to God but
2:06.3	but God is this primary storyteller and you know all that begins in the beginning and
2:12.0	and in some respects when we read in the first chapter of Genesis
2:15.0	that we are made in God's image,
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