Who Are We Really? Beth McCord & Esther Fleece Allen Show Us God Knows
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🗓️ 9 January 2020
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Ever wonder exactly who you are and what you were made for? Today’s guests tell how, as they pursued ways to know God and themselves a bit more, He’s helped them understand their true selves—not what other people say they are. Enneagram coach Beth McCord shares how she and her husband, Jeff, used this popular personality test to understand each other and improve their marriage, finding out the attributes God gave them both along the way. Author Esther Fleece Allen explores the power behind the names that God gives us, and how this can help us shed labels others might give us so that we can hear who God says we are while discovering His purpose for our lives.
Links, Products and Resources Mentioned:
Jesus Calling Weekly Prayer Call
True Connection with God and Each Other: Darlene Zschech and Margaret Feinberg episode
Beth McCord
The Enneagram Collection Book Series
Becoming Us: Using the Enneagram to Create a Thriving Gospel-Centered Marriage book
No More Faking Fine: Ending the Pretending book
Your New Name: Saying Goodby to the Labels that Limit book
Interview Quotes:
“If we learn why people do what they do, we can have more empathy, understanding, grace, mercy, compassion, and love in ways that really reflect the heart of Christ.” - Beth McCord
“God created us all differently, and each of the personality types have a beautiful way that we reflect in it.” - Beth McCord
“So often my heart wants to do it myself, to figure it out myself, to pull myself up by my bootstraps. But only Christ can fix me. Only Christ can love me. Only Christ has everything accomplished for me.” - Beth McCord
“Something that is very sacred and important to God is names.” - Esther Fleece Allen
“[I ask myself,] ‘Who does He say that I am and how can I begin to believe the new names He's given me, apart from the labels that I've associated with for far too long?’” - Esther Fleece Allen
“God does not speak to me in a condemning way like these labels are doing. God speaks to me in a new way, a language that I'm not even really familiar with, because we're so used to criticism in this life.” - Esther Fleece Allen
“There's power in a name. There's power in what we name others, what we name future generations, and there's power in the name we take on for ourselves, of who we're going to become.” - Esther Fleece Allen
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| 0:00.0 | So often we go with what our personality is telling us the less healthy parts |
| 0:06.7 | instead of believing the truth which usually is harder to follow but when we |
| 0:12.2 | trust him he will give us the strength to follow the healthier |
| 0:15.8 | path for each of our personality types. |
| 0:18.8 | Welcome to the Jesus Calling Podcast. |
| 0:21.2 | This week's guests share the blessings of getting to know ourselves |
| 0:24.1 | and who God created us to be. |
| 0:26.0 | Eniagram Coach Beth McCord and author Esther Fleece Allen. |
| 0:31.0 | First up, Beth McCord is passionate about helping others find meaningful relationships and a life of deep purpose using a tool called the |
| 0:38.3 | Enagram a system of personality typing that describes the different ways people view the world and |
| 0:44.3 | managed their emotions. Today Beth tells us how understanding her own personality |
| 0:49.1 | helped her understand herself and enhance her relationship with her husband Jeff early in their marriage. |
| 0:55.0 | Hey everyone, so I am Beth McCord and I am your any grand coach and the author of Becoming Us and the new books that are being released called |
| 1:05.9 | the Instagram Collection where it is nine gift journals for all nine types. I have been married to Jeff for 24 years and have two kids that |
| 1:16.1 | are 19 and 21 years old and we live just outside of Nashville, Tennessee. |
| 1:22.1 | So there's probably a lot of you out there, they're like, the Inia what? |
| 1:26.8 | Like what is the Iniagram? |
| 1:29.2 | That is a great question. |
| 1:30.9 | So Iniagram is a Greek word. |
| 1:32.9 | Enia means nine and gram means diagram. |
| 1:35.6 | And when you see the symbol, it's a nine pointed star. |
| 1:38.8 | And the nine points represent nine basic personality types, |
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