http://homebrewedchristianity.com/2009/11/09/crazy-texan-monday-3/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=crazy-texan-monday-3 Equipping grassroots theologians for creative thinking, engaging, and living. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:45:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://homebrewedchristianity.com/2009/11/09/crazy-texan-monday-3/comment-page-1/#comment-9460 Jo Ann W. Goodson Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:40:52 +0000 http://homebrewedchristianity.com/?p=2217#comment-9460 I like the way he emphasies knowing yourself. For me this is not only philosophical language but also Christian. Many scholars agree that you cannot love anyone until you first learn to know and love yourself. I agree. For me I think this should be an ongoing thing not just a onetime thing, as we are constantly changing and growing. We should be able to answer anyone who asks "who are you?" with very knowledgable and meaningful discriptions of not just what we look like but what our character and core being really is like. I like the way he emphasies knowing yourself. For me this is not only philosophical language but also Christian. Many scholars agree that you cannot love anyone until you first learn to know and love yourself. I agree. For me I think this should be an ongoing thing not just a onetime thing, as we are constantly changing and growing. We should be able to answer anyone who asks “who are you?” with very knowledgable and meaningful discriptions of not just what we look like but what our character and core being really is like.

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