12/10/2024
Instead of making those weight loss/diet New Year's resolutions, let's join together, in community, to find a better way towards wholehearted living!
We will walk together for 13 weeks as we discover how to take you from feeling stuck in your body to living wholeheartedly.
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VISION:
Do you feel like your body is a problem to solve? This book will show you how to make it part of the solution instead. Don’t let the bad things that happened to you rip you off from the good that God has for you! The Body Revelation will take you from feeling stuck in your body to living wholeheartedly.
WHY:
“Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.” 1 Cor. 6:19-20
While we all love this passage, we know that it is often stated like a Christian version of the Nike slogan, ‘Just do it!’ with little love or understanding for those who habitually struggle to adopt a healthy lifestyle.
Yes, it’s true–we are called to honor God with our bodies. But wouldn’t we agree that if people could “just do it,” they would have done it by now? We know that people do not want to stay sick or stuck in a cycle of trying and failing. Heavy expectations are the last thing people need when they know they are falling short.
The absence of change and distance from God may not be due to a lack of willpower or love for Him but to our lack of awareness of how pain has disrupted our body-brain connection. The Body Revelation is less about finding the right eating plan and doing the proper workouts and more about doing the patient and kind work of becoming aware of the pain that disrupts a healthy body-brain connection and keeps us cycling in an unhealthy pattern of obsessing or neglecting our bodies. By applying God’s Word to physical and spiritual practices, we renew our minds and learn to live fully connected to ourselves with the objective of moving toward the promise and purpose God has for us.
KEY MESSAGES:
• Too often, people of faith are taught to ignore, avoid, or forget our bodies, but this book reminds us that God calls our bodies good and cares about our pain. The Body Revelation:
– Walks us through six steps for metabolizing personal pain.
– Shows us how understanding the mind/body/soul connection can help us make healthier choices.
– Teaches us how to achieve well-being and live for more than a number on a scale.
– Helps people banish shame and pick up the transforming love of God that takes our pain and turns it into purpose.
– Helps people go from feeling stuck in sin and shame to a transforming, joy-living, abundant life.
• It’s possible for bad news to get stuck in good bodies. But it’s also possible for good bodies to get unstuck.
• We can keep doing what we’ve always done, getting the same results that leave us feeling shame, fear, and disgust. Or we go a new way. With the courage of Christ, we can walk through that pain.
• We’re going to get a little uncomfortable – there will be some moments of tension – but I promise you, it will heal pain.
• Your health struggles are not your fault. It’s not that you are doing something wrong, but it’s mostly likely that something wrong was done to you.
• By the end of the book, your pain and sickness turn into purpose!
