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In this episode we do a rapid fire Q&A through your questions from Instagram's Ask Anything Monday! Thanks so much for submitting them. We discuss: my shopping fast, charismatic gifts and the New Age, and more.
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Introduction to Verity Podcast
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Welcome to Verity. I'm your host, Felicia Masonheimer, an author, speaker, and Bible teacher. This podcast will help you embrace the history and depth of the Christian faith, ask questions, seek answers, and devote yourself to becoming a disciple of Jesus Christ. You don't have to settle for watered-down Christian teaching.
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And if you're ready to go deeper, God is just as ready to take you there. This is Verity, where every woman is a theologian.
Rapid Fire Q&A
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Welcome back you guys. Today we're doing something a little bit different. I'm recording this before our vacation and I thought instead of doing a standard
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one topic episode like we've done so far in this Ask Anything theology series, I'm going to do some rapid fire answers to your Ask Anything Monday questions. So I have my Instagram app open here on my phone and I am reading your questions and will be answering as many as I can get to in about 30 minutes. So
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This will be by no means a long form answer to any of these topics. So maybe I'll eventually do a whole episode on each of these questions. But for this episode, we're just going to move really fast through some of the questions you guys submitted a week ago on Ask Anything Monday. So I'm just going to jump right in here.
Book Recommendation: The Unseen Realm
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Samantha asked, Have you ever read The Unseen Realm by Michael Heizer? Thoughts if so.
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Yes, I have read the Unseen Realm, Josh actually read it with me, and I'm going to be doing a full review on the blog. But here are my initial thoughts.
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I think this is an amazing book if you are a seasoned believer who knows the fundamentals of Christian theology and is very stable in your walk with the Lord, has a strong personal relationship with the Lord. If you are a new believer though, if you don't know the fundamentals of Christian theology or you're new to Christianity as a whole, I would not recommend reading it because it introduces too many
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fringe concepts?
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in Christianity that would be a distraction from what you need to focus on right now. But if you are a seasoned Christian who's ready to dive into the nature of the supernatural in scripture and understand a little bit more of the problem of evil, I think it's an excellent read. He does have a more layperson form of the book, it's called supernatural, but I honestly think the unseen realm itself would be the better option to read.
Personal Challenge: No New Clothes in 2021
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Okay, Morgan asks, I want to hear more about not buying clothes this year. What have you learned so far? So obviously this is not a theology question.
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but I have decided not to buy clothes for the year 2021. I love to shop. Now, I have some other questions about me not buying retail, which is true. I do not buy many things retail. I almost exclusively shop secondhand and pretty much always have. I just know what brands to look for, what quality to look for, and I wait for it and find it. I absolutely love the hunt. It's amazing.
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But for the year 2021, I decided to take a break from shopping because I just noticed that it was something that I did when I was stressed or when I wanted a break. And even though I was spending like seven bucks or 15 bucks or even 40 bucks to get like a great deal on all this stuff,
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In the end, I just felt like it was pointing to a heart issue that needed to be dealt with. And my friend Lisa Whittle had talked with me about this where she too was a secondhand shopper who noticed that her shopping was a heart issue and she took a year off of clothes shopping. And so inspired by her, I decided to do
Balancing Fiction and Theology
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that this year. And it definitely has exposed that I turned to scrolling through
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Okay, Kate asks, how is reading fiction helpful and worth my time? I enjoy it, but I feel like it's dessert of reading.
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I definitely think that fiction is a dessert of reading. I think that it's healthy to have a really strong mix of nonfiction and fiction. So if you're reading mostly fiction, I think you definitely need to be integrating some theological reading in there to grow in your faith, grow in your understanding, to challenge yourself, especially if the fiction you're reading is romantic in nature. I really encourage breaking that up because there's a lot of studies out there about the impact of
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taking in that kind of information on a regular basis.
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I think varying what you're reading is good, but I also think fiction can be really healthy for cultivating empathy and understanding story and engaging with the current culture and their perception of reality. Once again, I think this is something, if you are pretty strong in your faith, that it can be helpful to read modern fiction to get a read on the culture's view of the world. That in turn helps you engage with it theologically.
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and think about, okay, how does my Christianity intersect with the themes in this book? That said, and I've talked about this before, if you struggle with sexual sin or addiction, I think you have to be very discerning with what you're reading. And honestly, even if you have a different kind of trauma background with violence or something like that, we need to be discerning with what we're reading, just like with what we're watching.
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is what I'm reading healthy. Is it putting good things in my mind or is it causing me to be anxious, like reading a lot of crime novels or listening to true crime podcasts? This is just something to be walking with the Holy Spirit in. What does he want me to read? What does he want me to consume?
Building Diverse Friendships
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So that will look very different person to person, but I think overall fiction can really help us cultivate empathy and think through how our Christianity interacts with things that the world believes.
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Okay, here's the next question. Is it okay to be friends with non-Christians? I would hope you would be friends with non-Christians. If you are not friends with non-Christians, you need to find some non-Christians to be friends with because Christians are meant to be in the world. We are not of the world, but we are meant to engage with the world, to know people who don't believe like we believe.
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to know their worldview and their lives and to engage with those lives and care about them as people. So absolutely, we should be friends with non-Christians. Now, would I go to a non-Christian for parenting advice on my children? Probably not. Just because our worldviews are very different and how I want to raise my children is going to be very different from them
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that's not something that I would necessarily seek their advice on. But maybe I would seek their advice on something with money or, you know, ask them about their favorite recipes, things like that. There's an intimacy level Christian to Christian that is going to be a little different than it is Christian to non-Christian. But that doesn't mean that you can't be close friends with somebody who's not a believer or who believes very differently than you. I think that that's a healthy way to live your life, to be in community with people who believe very differently.
Respecting Jewish Traditions
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Jesus was, and so we should be too. Okay, here's a question, and if you've listened to the Easter episode last week, you're probably like, whoa, I was wondering about this. Mariel says, what are the pros and cons of observing a biblical feast and why is it a hype now? So first, I want to be careful with the word biblical feast because this is the term that's being used, and it makes it sound like
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If it's biblical, then we should be doing it, right? Because we're Christians, we should be doing it. So I want to approach this topic with gentleness, of course, and respect for those who are observing the Jewish beasts, because that's what they are. They are Jewish beasts. But I want to speak from my experience. I've been in a Messianic Jewish community for two years now, almost.
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I have learned so much, it's been so helpful, but I am also friends with people who are involved in Jewish-Palestinian relations, Christian-Zionist circles, and engaging in the conversation with non-Christian Jews on a regular basis, and from my experience talking with non-Christian Jews, so non-Messianic Jews, and their
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deep hurt and even offense at Christians celebrating Jewish holidays, Josh and I have decided that it is a better witness for us to not observe these holidays in order to respect and honor the Jewish people and their holidays. Because while Christianity did come, in a sense, out of Judaism,
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It is something distinct. It is distinct from Judaism. And that cannot be ignored. And when you know Church history and you look at the very beginning and how Christianity and Judaism quickly began to diverge and why Christianity ended up having separate holidays to celebrate Jesus and His birth and His resurrection,
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you quickly understand that while these holidays have very deep significant meaning, for a Christian to read the Christian doctrine into a Jewish holiday that is still being celebrated as a Jewish holiday that is a Jewish holiday is deeply offensive to the Jews. Now for Messianic Jews, it's exciting and wonderful because they do believe that Jesus is the Messiah,
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And so for them, it's natural to want to invite the Gentiles into this celebration. And I think that, you know, I'm not telling a Messianic Jewish person what to do. If we were Jewish, I think things would be different and we would gladly join someone who is Jewish at their Passover. But we will not observe those holidays because we are not ethnically Jewish. We are not
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Jewish and religion, we are Christians, and so we observe the Christian liturgical holidays. So as far as pros and cons, I would say the pros of this movement have been to show us the Jewish heritage that should have been honored by the church, but there's a difference between celebration and honor and appropriation. And I think that a lot of Christians would do well to actually pause before jumping on that train and actually research this.
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For instance, there was a post going around Passover is very recent, where a Christian had celebrated a Passover and posted on Instagram that they made a holla cross. So they made a cross out of holla bread, which if I'm not mistaken, holla bread has yeast. Passover, one of the distinctives of it is you remove all of the yeast from your home. So this in itself is not even an appropriate celebration of Passover because you're
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you're not celebrating it correctly and you're bringing in these overt Christian images. This is very offensive to many Jewish people and so to be a Christian witness to the Jewish people in our lives, I think we need to be very careful in how we go about talking about the Jewish festivals and feasts and how we go about
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celebrating them if that's something that we choose to do. So I understand that some of you may be very offended by this if you are celebrating these, but I would just encourage you to talk to Jewish people who are not messianic and ask them how they feel about this.
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and pray about it and think it through. And also, I recommend really studying church history because there is a reinterpretation of church history happening in which it's said that the church holidays aren't
Charismatic Practices and New Age Concerns
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actually Christian. They aren't actually biblical, and that's just not true. I don't have time to get into that today, but the Easter episode talks a little bit about that, so you can go back and listen to that if you want more. Okay, Ali asks, why are so many charismatic worship practices often accused of being new age?
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So there's a couple factors here and I would recommend listening to the cessation versus continuation episode that talks about the spiritual gifts because I think it will help explain a little bit of why this is happening.
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most of the people, actually I would say all of the people who talk about charismatic worship practices, so the continuationist view, that prophecy, tongues, even more expressive worship, I'm not talking about like extremist examples like rolling on the floor or slain in the spirit or quote-unquote holy laughter, I'm not talking about those, that's more of an extreme corner of the continuationist world that doesn't represent the whole.
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The people who accuse Charismatics of being New Age are universally cessationist. They do not believe that the spiritual gifts are for today. And this is an example of how theological bias affects someone's conclusions. It's totally fine to hold to the cessationist view. It can be argued biblically. However, you have to recognize that your bias as a cessationist is affecting your view of the Charismatic Worship Practices. And if you view it through a continuationist lens,
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you can find biblical basis for expressive worship, for tongues, for prophecy. There's tons of it, tons of biblical foundation. And I am a continuationist, so obviously I lean that direction. But I've been there and back again on this topic. I really pressed into studying cessation in college and after college having seen continuationist, charismatic culture abused.
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It can be very abused. I think we've seen it done many times, such as with the holy laughter, things like that. But is it new age?
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Not all of it, no. The idea that meditation or seeking the Holy Spirit to lead us to pray for someone or even to lead us to pray for healing or to prophesy, prophecy is not adding revelation onto the canon of scripture. It is simply for the upbuilding of the church, according to Paul, New Testament prophecy. These things are not New Age. The New Age almost universally is a copy
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and I would say an adulteration of the Christian spiritual practices such as silence and meditation and prayer and contemplation and things like that. The New Age twists those and where are they directed? They're directed at demonic forces. They're directed at in an idolatrous fashion. But what are the original biblical spiritual practices directed at? They're directed at the Trinity. That's the point.
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Spiritual practices pretty much across every religion are going to look very similar, but the others are an adulteration of the original goal, which is to worship Christ. So a couple elements to remember then, theological bias, cessation versus continuation, and then also to remember that these spiritual practices can be adulterated, but it does not mean that when someone is practicing spiritual disciplines of fasting and
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prayer and meditation and silence and stillness and things like that in their personal life that they are automatically new age.
Book Announcement: Stop Calling Me Beautiful
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I think all of us have been at a women's conference where we were told, you are a beautiful daughter of the Most High King. And it's true, but it's not the whole truth. The beauty of being God's daughter has some backstory and it's left out in a lot of messages preached to women.
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So if you're tired of hearing the watered down Christian teaching and you're hungry for a deeper spiritual life, I have something for you. It's my brand new book, Stop Calling Me Beautiful, Finding Soul Deep Strength in a Skin Deep World. Stop Calling Me Beautiful is a book about going deeper with God.
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I'm going to talk about pursuing the truths of who God is and who we are in relationship to Him, how to study scripture, how legalism, shallow theology, and false teaching keep us from living boldly as a woman of the Word. I'm so excited to put this book in your hands.
Critique of Fundamentalism
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You can grab your copy on Amazon, or for more information, head to my website, FeliciaMasonheimer.com, and click the book tab.
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Okay, Mrs. Jarsirsi asks, narrow way faithful remnant. Fundamentalists use this to support their denomination, but the Christian world is very large and diverse. Is this a misinterpretation of passages?
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So what she's really asking is, among many fundamentalists, so for those who are like, what's a fundamentalist? This would be a person who tends to confuse freedom issues, like what we wear, what music we listen to, where we send our kids to school, things like that, with orthodox doctrines. So if you don't have a certain structure in your home,
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your marriage, for instance, or a certain view on gender roles, then you are a heretic. That's that's kind of it's an elevation of third and second tier doctrines to first tier doctrines. And if you don't know what those are, go listen to the discernment episode of the podcast or join one of my discernment webinars where I talk about the tiers of secondary and third tier doctrine versus first tier. So a fundamentalist tends to confuse these things
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And then when you say, when you disagree, or when you say, hey, this isn't actually, you know, scripture doesn't actually say you have to homeschool your kids, or scripture does not actually say that modesty only looks this way.
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They will sometimes respond by saying that they're persecuted. They're being persecuted for the gospel, persecuted for the truth. But the confusion is here that they're elevating a third-tier doctrine to a core doctrine, a gospel doctrine, and then saying they're being persecuted for the gospel. But that's not persecution for the gospel. It's persecution for your personal conviction. And it's actually not even persecution.
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It's just disagreement. It's important as believers to know the difference between genuine persecution and simple disagreement or dissent, which is why knowing the difference between the core, essential doctrines of the faith and freedom issues is so important.
Dating for Experience, Not Just Marriage
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If you're looking for the next discernment webinar, I announce those on Instagram and in my newsletter. So if you're not in my newsletter, you can sign up on FeliciaMasonHeimer.com, click the tab newsletter, you'll be the first to know.
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Okay, Naomi asks, date for experience versus date to marry? Both. Both. You can't date to marry without dating for experience. That's what I believe. And I used to hold to the courtship model in my teens. I held to that model and I thought it was, you know, the only way, you know, if I went on a date, I was only going out with people who I could see myself marrying. Problem is, you can't always know if it's someone you could see yourself marrying until you go on the date.
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So if you only wait, wait, wait till you see somebody and you're like, oh, that's the kind of person I want to marry. Well, then you either have to ask them out, which purity culture has taught us women can't do, or you have to hope they ask you out. And by then there's so much weight and so much heaviness on this date. It can get way too serious, way too fast, and then everybody's heart is broken.
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There is absolutely nothing wrong with dating for experience dating to get to know somebody just dating for fun. Just because you like somebody or you thought they're interesting. Maybe even going on one date or going on multiple dates with different people in the same week or month. You're not committing to marry someone just because you went on a date.
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So yes, date for experience and then maybe you'll marry them. Maybe you won't. Once you get to a certain point, dating for experience, you'll probably have to have a talk, you know, define the relationship. And then from there on, it's going to be more serious. It's going to be more intentional. But starting out, there's no reason for you to put so much weight on something when you're just getting to know them. I do want to add the addendum though that
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If you keep strong boundaries physically from the beginning, it will really help you to have a clear mind in making those decisions. So personally, I did not kiss the guys I dated, at least not until I was serious with them. And I think that's probably a good guideline just so that your head is clear as you're deciding whether this is somebody you want to be more serious
Divine Justice Across Testaments
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with.
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Okay, Sam asks how to understand God in the Old Testament killing sinful Israelites, but not current day Christians. So you have to remember that when God dwelled with Israel, he was dwelling, his presence was literally with Israel in the temple.
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That's a heavy concentration of God's glory and presence, even though we have the Holy Spirit residing with us today, dwelling our quote-unquote temples and guiding our behavior, guiding our choices, leading us closer to Christ and becoming the image of Christ.
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We have not seen the Shekinah glory of God the way Israel saw it, descending on the temple in a cloud. There is a difference there. And we're going to see that when Christ returns. We're going to see that and see God face to face. So there was a difference between God dwelling with Israel in this crazy wild glory that's in the temple and us today.
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That time, that season of when he was dwelling with Israel in that manner meant that, as a theocracy, the rules were different. There was a level of holiness required that was not different from today in the sense that we're still required to be holy as he is holy, right? And Christ sanctifies us as we walk with him. But it looked different then than it did and does now.
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So with God's Shekinah Glory dwelling in that temple, there was almost a different kind of responsibility on the Israelites to be the city on the hill and different rules, plus it was a different culture.
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a different age. And God worked within that culture and age to teach them holiness, to teach them boundaries, to teach them what it was that they were to obey.
Understanding Biblical Judgment
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And so for more on this, I would recommend a commentary on the passages you have in question. So if it's Exodus, Deuteronomy, things like that, get a commentary, read about it, read online about it, because there are scholars who have discussed this at length.
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to explain the difference between then and now. Jenny asks, what does it mean to not judge? Shouldn't we be able to say what is wrong? Yes, we are to determine what was wrong and to say what was wrong. When Jesus in Matthew 7 says that we are not to judge, what he is saying is we are not to judge hypocritically. In the context of the Sermon on the Mount, he continually points back to the heart of the law and says, if you're going to live like this,
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then don't be acting like this. Don't be double-minded. Don't have a double standard. Don't be a hypocrite. And so in Matthew 7, where he's talking about judgment, he's not saying that we don't determine what is right and what is wrong because he teaches that later on in the New Testament, but he is saying, practice what you preach.
Theology and Political Engagement
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Okay, next question is, do you think Christians should engage in politics or stay out of it?
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I think that by being theological, by understanding what we believe and why we believe it, we will inherently be political because our theology will inform our politics. How that looks per person will probably differ. Some people will believe that their theology and their
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view of Christ and who he is and what he's done means that they should be influencing the world through the government. Others will believe that they need to influence the world as individuals and the government needs to stay out of it. And that's going to lead to two different political approaches based on
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Even an Orthodox theology where you will come at these topics from the same standpoint of an Orthodox theology but how you believe that interacts with your country or your state and what that looks on a legislative level will be different. So yes, to be theological
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is to be political to varying degrees. I do think you should care about what's going on in your country, care about what happens and have a voice as long as you can use it. I think it's an amazing freedom to be able to speak up and have a say or whatever to whatever degree it is in your nation that you can have a say. But
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The problem comes when we elevate politics to the level of our Christian theology, when we start to build our view of God or use God to further our political agenda or claim that our nation is God's anointed nation as if it's a new Israel. No, that's not biblical. But we do know that to believe in Christ, to live out Christ's mission in this world will probably influence how we vote and what we care about and
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what we choose to do with our vote. So yes, your theology will impact your politics, but your politics should never rule over your theology.
History of Mennonites
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Next question from Ashley says, where do Mennonite, not Amish, fall on the theological spectrum?
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The Mennonite and Amish are descended from the same denominational source. They are both Anabaptists, as are Brethren churches, Anabaptists in theology. An Anabaptist simply means re-baptizer. This happened after the Reformation, so when Luther, Calvin, or rather Luther and Zwingli broke from the Catholic Church very quickly,
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the church began to splinter into different approaches to the doctrine of salvation, baptism, etc. So they pretty much all held the same tenets of salvation, salvation by faith and grace, the five solas, etc.
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They differed on how baptism should be practiced, and so the Anabaptists were practicing rebaptism, so they would rebaptize someone who had been baptized as an infant, and they were persecuted for this. In fact, the Anabaptists were one of the most persecuted groups following the Reformation, not just by the Catholic Church, but by Luther and Zwingli themselves. They were persecuted terribly and even had to flee.
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Eventually, the Mennonite and Amish broke from each other. You had these varying degrees of views on how they should live as far as their church structure and what they're allowed to wear and what constituted holiness, essentially. And as of today, the Mennonite Church is the most splintered church. They have the most diversity as far as denominations. They've become so wildly diverse.
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So many different churches with so many different views, they have the most, most splintering has happened among the Mennonites. But Mennonite, Amish, and brethren all go back to the same Anabaptist route.
Blogging Journey: Poetry to Theology
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Next question is, how did you start writing your blog and how old were you? I was 16 when I started my blog.
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which is 14 years ago and I was writing it just for fun. I put poems on it at first. I was a poet at the beginning. I won a couple national contests actually and over time I started just kind of writing my devotional thoughts and like my walk with God and what I was learning. I even put like
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coffee reviews out there. It was just really whatever I wanted. It was just kind of fun. But then as I started my religion degree, I started writing more theological content and like, what does this mean? Like, what does it mean to be a Christian? Why do I believe what I believe? What's the background behind these things?
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And at that point I started to gain a small following. So this is very early in the blogging world. I would guess this would be around 2009, 2010, 2011. And then from about 2012 to 2017 is when we saw a lot more growth with the people who followed me. I started my business in 2017, launched my first ebook, and then today
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Almost four years later, this is where we are. We are Every Woman a Theologian. We have a core following of about 20,000 on Instagram, about 80,000, but not all of those people engage or watch my stories. So we have the podcast, Facebook, Instagram, email newsletter, eBooks shop, all of that. And now Every Woman a Theologian is Josh and my full-time job between the shop and the blog, and I feel so blessed.
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with what God did with it. Definitely was not my plan, but his all along.
Consistent Bible Reading
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Last question is, how do I fall in love with Jesus? I read the Bible sometimes, but I don't feel passion. So first of all, good for you to be opening your Bible. That is a great start. And I'm so happy to hear that you're doing that. Keep doing it because that is your foundation.
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But I would encourage you also, don't wait to feel like you love the Lord. The Lord loves you, and as you press into understanding that and truly embracing the truth of it, you will begin to feel a love back.
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but trying to drum it up or basing your view of God only on feelings is a recipe for disappointment. I have plenty of days where I don't feel like coming to meet Him or I don't feel like praying, but I do it anyway because this is a relationship and I know Him well enough to know He will always receive me.
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He will always be there for me. So think of it as a relationship. We don't always feel in love with the person that we're partnered with. We don't always feel like we love our friends, right? But we still spend time with them and think of them and stay in contact with them because it's a relationship. And the same goes with the Lord. You get to walk every single day with Him.
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I think about this constantly that so often my prayer life isn't something where I sit down and I pray for 15-30 minutes a day. I might do 5 or 10 minutes during my quiet time, but most of my conversations with the Lord are throughout the day, just praying as things are laid on my heart, telling him about a frustration when I'm feeling overwhelmed or angry, just going to him first with it. Cultivate that kind of a relationship with him and over time the emotions catch up. The emotions are a response to the existence of a relationship.
Closing and Listener Engagement
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So cultivate the relationship, the passion comes later. All right, you guys, I hope this was a fun episode. I'll try to do these maybe every four or five episodes as we do the deep dives, and then we'll come back and do a quick response to your questions. Just want you to know that I greatly appreciate hearing from you on Instagram, on Facebook, in my Facebook community, Every Woman a Theologian.
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It is wonderful to get to know you and what you're trying to learn so I can cultivate the resources that can help equip you to become a theologian yourself. So, so grateful for you and for the opportunity to walk this road towards the heart of God hand in hand with you.
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Thank you for joining us for today's episode of Verity. You can connect with fellow listeners by following me on Instagram at Felicia Masonheimer or on our Facebook page by the same name. Also visit FeliciaMasonheimer.com for links to each episode and the show notes.