Debra Fileta: The Person You Never Thought You'd Date [Biola University Chapel]

[@stacyharpoljordan4366]

Let God show us Who We Are💙.

[@blackmanblue8937]

"We love becuase He (God) first loved us". I was not pleased when I heard your statement, "to love others we first must love ourselves". That is not what "loving your neighbor as yourself means". There is no one who has ever "not loved themselves". In fact, even people who commit suicide do not hate themselves, they just want their pain or guilt to end. If it were up to all of us, to focus on loving ourselves, then Paul's words would make no sense, when he warns Timothy, "...they will be lovers of themselves..." The only reason we love anyone apart before we give our lives to the Lord is becuase others have earned our love or deserve our love becuase of who they are to us. You should probably take another look at what Paul said in Philippians 2 about "having this mind that was in Christ", a mind of selflessness that comes for other-centered love, not self-love. Also, your message was totally out of line for what the Lord wants His people to do when they are confused about who they are. The scripture from Proverbs 20:5 does not teach us about or promote "self-counsel" or "self-introspection". The context of the group of proverbs to which it belongs is concerned with the value of "wise counsel" from others who know the Lord. And under the New Covenant, we have the cheif Counselor, God the Holy Spirit! Where is the place for "introspection" apart from counsel from the Lord? And introspection accompanied by the counsel of the Holy Spirit, then it is not true introspection, it is counsel from the Lord! I think your audience (and the readers of your book) would have been better served if you would have directed them to seek "who they are" from the Lord! As Jesus said, "When the Helper comes...He will lead you into all truth"; and "If you continue in My Word, you are truly my disciples; you shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free". He will set you free from every lie we have believed about ourselves and every lie others convinced us was true about us. He will set us free to be "who He alone knows we should be"! If you continue down your path of logic that you used in your presentation, you will find your self of no more value that a "self-help" psychologist, like Norman Vincent Peele, who was a godless man, but claiming faith in Christ. Your heart is in the right place, but your understanding of Christian love is in line with psychologists andnot Jesus. Even worse, your method of interpretation of scripture lacks accuracy and needs some serious improvement. I will pray for you

[@AlphaOmega888]

She's being honest though. All Bible believing Christians are loving themselves in the name of the Bible. You need to ingest the literal body and blood of Christ to understand love.