"Your daughter’s feelings should not be made into her moral compass. She shouldn’t ignore them, but she shouldn’t *trust* them either. Rather, she should be taught to evaluate and judge her feelings by the light of the law of God and the Gospel of Jesus Christ."
A thousand times yes. I work with a lot of university age students who are desperately trying to navigate their lives based on feelings vs. feelings placed alongside the Gospel of Jesus.
Most of the problems that Sheila notes are, at root, problems within evangelical pietism generally. Yet she succumbs to similar pitfalls as those she criticizes, because she articulates her whole critique within the evangelical pietist framework. Purity Culture had no law-gospel distinction and made everything law. Sheila also has no law-gospel distinction but makes everything gospel. And thus, each camp makes a whole host of parallel errors downstream from that fundamental misunderstanding.
"Your daughter’s feelings should not be made into her moral compass. She shouldn’t ignore them, but she shouldn’t *trust* them either. Rather, she should be taught to evaluate and judge her feelings by the light of the law of God and the Gospel of Jesus Christ."
A thousand times yes. I work with a lot of university age students who are desperately trying to navigate their lives based on feelings vs. feelings placed alongside the Gospel of Jesus.
Most of the problems that Sheila notes are, at root, problems within evangelical pietism generally. Yet she succumbs to similar pitfalls as those she criticizes, because she articulates her whole critique within the evangelical pietist framework. Purity Culture had no law-gospel distinction and made everything law. Sheila also has no law-gospel distinction but makes everything gospel. And thus, each camp makes a whole host of parallel errors downstream from that fundamental misunderstanding.
Helpful to see the complexity of gaslighting compressed into that one word, "lying." Had not really understood it so simply before. Thank you.