Doers of the Word & Embracing Authenticity - September 2021 Newsletter
FROM THE PASTORS DESK Happy September everyone! Hopefully each of you are doing well, despite all I have heard about the busy-ness of this month. This will be my first popcorn festival season! I am excited to get in there, raise some money for our missions, and get the story of Bethany Church out into the community. The theme this month will be AUTHENTICITY. But what does it m ean to be authentic? As Brené Brown writes in her book The Gifts of Imperfection, “Authenticity is the daily practice of letting go of who we think we should be, and embracing who we are.” This really resonates with me because it is too easy in our world today to hide. As a friend recently told me, the opposite of authenticity is hypocrisy. Our world knows too much about that today. Well - if this world is so hypocritical, how can we as a church fight against that? I have a few ideas. First, vulnerability is the key. God created you to be who you are. No one on this planet has experienced every...