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The Jennie Allen Podcast

S7: 01 - Don't overcomplicate Jesus.

The Jennie Allen Podcast

Jennie Allen

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.96.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2021

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

In the middle of our spiraling, we need something to hold fast to... someone and it's Jesus. But what does this really mean in our day to day life? Let's start our 10-week journey right here. Thanks HelloFresh! Go to HelloFresh.com/MADEFORTHIS10 and use code MADEFORTHIS10 for 10 free meals, including free shipping

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0:00.0

This is Jenny Allen and you are you to Hello Fresh for supporting made for this.

0:14.5

Go to hello fresh.com slash made for this tin and use the code made for this tin for

0:19.5

ten free meals including free shipping. So the vision for this season is that everything is spinning, and there is of course a lot of chaos.

0:35.6

2020 completely changed everything about us, right?

0:39.4

Like we are completely different people than a year ago and when you're spinning the hope is

0:44.0

that somebody will grab you by the shoulders and say hey here's what's true here's how

0:47.8

you need to think in the season here's how you can stop spinning

0:52.0

emotionally and

0:52.9

spiritually and relationally and trust.

0:55.6

And so we're starting this all with Jesus and really just a simple faith.

1:00.4

And what does it look like to keep that simple faith in the midst of a very complicated

1:04.4

spiritual environment as we all have right now. And I was visiting with somebody this morning

1:10.3

and we were actually talking about exactly this thing I wasn't even thinking

1:13.4

about the podcast at the moment but we were talking about how it feels like in America

1:17.7

it's gotten complicated to follow Jesus and I would say it's not supposed to be

1:21.6

complicated to follow Jesus it's supposed to be costly and it's supposed to be at times very difficult and it says that there will be times that we are hated because of our faith and there are times that we are going to experience

1:34.2

resistance from the enemy in our lives as we all have and and so it's not supposed

1:38.3

to be too easy to follow Jesus that's not what I'm saying but it's not supposed

1:42.0

to be complicated it is supposed to stay

1:44.3

somewhat simple and I think this is one of the problems right now with the Western church is we have

1:49.6

lost the simplicity of our faith. It has gotten so complicated. It has gotten so

1:55.2

divisive in every denomination and in you know every different theological camp. I

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