In a Twitter thread this morning (Dec. 8), Bible teacher and bestselling author Beth Moore shares words of encouragement with younger generations of Christian authors and church workers. Saying her generation introduced “platform culture” and “Christian celebrity culture,” the 65-year-old Moore admits “we made speaking and teaching and traveling, and certainly book publishing look glamorous.”
That’s a disservice, she says, because “it has always been hard. Publishing a book is terrifying. The anxiety can eat up your intestines. The criticism has been ever with us like a codependent frenemy.”
Beth Moore: God Wants Reliance, Not Success
In the thread, Beth Moore focuses on a phrase from Paul’s letter to the Philippians: “and this is from God” (1:28). God appoints or allows “difficulties and disappointments and opposition” as a gift, albeit often unwanted, she says. That’s because God wants his followers “to be filled with his Spirit, not with ourselves. … his objective with us is not to make us successful but to make us reliant.”