In this episode, Whitney teaches through Luke 7:36-50 about a nameless woman who responds to Jesus in an awkward but beautiful display of affection.
We see a great contrast between the host, Simon the Pharisee, who demonstrates cynicism, doubt, and judgment, and the woman who pours out sacrificially at the feet of Jesus, a woman known in town only as a sinner.
This brief episode touches on the ways that we attempt to make ourselves look better than we are, while challenging us to live a version of faith that expresses itself in sincere action. It offers a fresh look at repentance and pushes us to ask how our faith is known beyond the words that we speak.
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Show Notes/Quotes:
“Is Whitney even your real name?”
“We have a tendency to make ourselves look better than we are.”
“Genuine faith reveals itself in sincere action.”
“I believe that repetition as we study God’s Word is one of the most helpful and important things we can do.”
“Eugene Peterson, the author of the Message version of the Bible, writes, ‘the NO we say to the world’s lies and the YES we say to God’s truth is repentance. It is always and everywhere the first word in the Christian life.’”
“I think repentance is very hard for us, because we have a tendency to make ourselves look better than we are.”
“My faith and your faith will look different, but our faith needs to visibly look like something. And I believe that it probably ought to look more like a messy, awkward display of abundant gratitude to our Savior and less like a crossed arm, judgmental view of our neighbor.”
“Dane Ortlund is the author of a book called Gentle and Lowly, and he writes, ‘It’s the most counterintuitive aspect of Christianity, that we are declared right with God not once we begin to get our act together but once we collapse into honest acknowledgement that we never will.’”
Verses:
Luke 7:36-50
1 Samuel 16:7
James 2:26
2 Chronicles 7:14