Ep. 343 - Modeling for Your Girl What it Looks Like to Release Control as a Biblical Woman

On this Thursday episode, hosts Rachael Culpepper and Melissa Bearden continue unpacking Biblical womanhood, this time through the lens of control and the importance of mother's modeling a healthy release of control for their daughters. Launching from a book quote by Dr. Larry Crabb on Biblical femininity, Rachael and Melissa reflect on their own notions of God's design for women—specifically whether  it's  oppressive or liberating.   

 

Melissa shared her own journey through self-control and balancing her natural wiring with expectations for girls and women of the time.  Ultimately, Melissa  feels that the Fruit of the Spirit as laid out in Galatians 5:22-23  open  the door for joy and contentment in a girl as the Holy Spirit cultivates each virtue in her life into womanhood.   

 

Melissa fuses Patti Garibay's Raising Godly Girls Minute with her own daughter's journey through middle school anxiety, resting in the truth that God was gently shepherding her through a season learning to release control and let Him take the driver seat.   

 

Rachael cultivates the roots of Biblical wisdom  regarding  control encouraging Christian parents and their girls to embrace surrender, let God lead in the places that are already His, and to lean on Scripture as a heart healer when a girl mistakenly thinks she controls her world.   

 

Ultimately, listeners  will leave this conversation with a clear sense of God's authority and the gift of a Biblical woman learning to follow His lead.   

 

 

Three Things to Consider:  

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