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Unlearning Shame: What Jesus Taught Us About Our Bodies
What if the shame you carry about your body is not something Jesus ever asked you to carry? In his Sermon on the Mount, Jesus pushes back on all the lies that we have internalized about our bodies.
In this message, Rev. Dr. Christopher Carter names each of those lies — that we are not our bodies, that we should change them, and that some bodies are better than others. Then he traces how that lie gets into us, why unlearning it is so destabilizing, and what Jesus's healing ministry reveals: that in the kingdom of God, every body matters. Because in the kingdom of Rome, only certain bodies do…
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