114: God's Beautiful Design for Men and Women with Kat Armstrong

Kat Armstrong has been emboldening women to be all-in for Jesus for twenty years as a speaker, Bible teacher, author, and podcast host. She is the author of No More Holding Back and The In-Between Place. As cofounder of The Polished Network, a nonprofit connecting and gathering working women to navigate career and explore faith, her mission is to create holy curiosity. Kat holds a master of christian education from Dallas Theological Seminary. She and her husband, Aaron, have been married for eighteen years, and live in Dallas, Texas, with their son, Caleb. They attend Dallas Bible Church, where Aaron serves as the lead pastor.  She comes on the show today to dispel some of the myths and stereotypes surrounding the topic of "Biblical womanhood" and to open our eyes to the beautiful design for men and women that is found in God's Word.  We pray you will walk away encouraged by today's show!     What She Chats about in Today’s Episode: ~Kat's book, No More Holding Back: Emboldening Women to Move Past Barriers, See Their Worth, and Serve God Everywhere , what led her to write it, and what readers can expect ~Kat's own journey through legalism and wrong stereotypes surrounding the topic of "Biblical womanhood" ~The implications of the greatest commandment on our views of men and women and their roles; the common, perhaps subconscious, assumption that loving God with your heart and soul is women's work and loving God with your mind and strength is men's work; the problem with gendering this great commandment ~Addressing the common myths that say marriage is to be our greatest joy and motherhood is to be our highest calling; the idolization and other problems these lies lead to ~The fruits of the Spirit as being our litmus test for whether or not we are living as Christ has called us to ~The ways in which Christ called, commissioned, and equipped women and how Paul praises them for partnering with him in the early church ~Asking ourselves the question: Would I allow women to take on the roles today that Jesus and Paul allowed them to take on in the early church to advance the gospel or would that go against my belief system on "Biblical womanhood"? ~Wrong views of "male leadership" and what we actually see in the Word ~The examples of Phoebe, Priscilla, Lydia, and others ~Roman household codes in the 1st century and how Paul's and Jesus' teachings in the NT reveal the revolutionary nature of the ways of Jesus and Paul said relationships should work in Christian families ~Mutual submission between all Christ-followers, one to another ~What knowing the Greek of Ephesians 5 reveals about Paul's actual teachings on submission ~The importance of knowing the cultural and historical context of the Scriptures ~Jesus' breaking down of gender barriers as shown in the book of John ~And more! For full show notes, head to www.hargraveshomeandhearth.com/podcast