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if you're joining us from somewhere else in the country we are so glad that you are Dallas. I love you so excited to be with you this evening that bumper you just heard and watched means that we are back in this series or still in this series asking for a friend and the question tonight is what does it mean to be a strong woman in the church?

come on so yeah so some guys just thought okay well I see your face you're like why did I show up okay and here's why you showed up God in this providence in this sovereignty has you here because guys we have some work to do.

Let me tell you how I found that out and so we do this podcast calls called views from the porch. Yeah check it out David's very excited about it. David you're a little red in the face during an hour sunburn I know he was sunburned if you're wondering. Yes and so views from the porch everybody listening is like who yeah anyway views from the porch and so you know with their way of doing this.

And so you know with we talked about biblical womanhood a couple weeks ago and we we recorded that a little while back and that went live and I know that a lot of you haven't heard that and so about 11 o'clock the other night I guess Monday night I was going to bed and I got an email from a friend that I really trust

and she just said hey JP I think you missed an opportunity to encourage women and he goes she said so much so that I would considering pulling the podcast down

and I and I prayed about that and I thought okay I really trust this friend of mine and then I got an email from another trusted friend that said something really similar and I didn't have time was 11 30 now okay at night I'm my that's that's past my bedtime

time and so I'm thinking okay I'm not going to go back and listen to that this evening but Lord I'm just going to trust that you sent some servants to care and ask that that be taken down that evening and I went back and I listened to it and if I'm completely transparent with you there was just some like I'm like yeah you know that's a conversation and so there's always things like I really wish I would have said that better I wish I'd have been tighter I wish that would have been clearer you know where I'm a I'm a verbal processor so I'm kind of all over the map

but at the end of the day I'm just like you know what that could have been better but also there was some confusion in my heart and so when I have hurt friends and I don't fully understand why I assume that I have something to learn

okay and when I've hurt someone someone is hurt by me or or they're hurt and I can't and I'm listening to them and I don't fully understand why I assume that there's some work the Holy Spirit wants to do in my heart and mind to listen and I'm going to do it

and to learn from friends and what I've learned through this process is that there are a lot of women who are hurt just by what's going on right now

and that really grieved me when I say what's going on right now I mean I just mean in our culture like maybe you feel oppressed or or lesser than in any way

and I hate that because I don't see that in God's word and and if I'm reading that or if I've ever communicated anything that could be interpreted that

then I've missed the mark by such an incredible chasm and so as we talk about what does it mean to be a strong woman in the church

I thought that I don't know if you guys know this okay but let me just be transparent about some I'm not a woman okay

and so even furthermore to put a puncture and an exclamation point on the idea that I have a lot to learn on this topic

but I thought that I would invite one of the strongest women in the church I know would you please welcome to the stage my friend Jenny Allen

Jenny Allen is with us this evening

friend I'm so excited to hear thank you for joining us and and so you you're welcome to go there you had a microphone

and so you've been someone that has sharpened me I mean you even in talking to me just you know where I've missed it

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