EP34: Beyond Going Skin Deep As A Christian - Self Love vs Conceit?

You can pour yourself out for everyone around you and still come home convinced you aren't enough. Learning how to love yourself as a Christian starts with noticing when the tank is empty. On Dr. Scott Asmar: The Man & Everything In Between, Scott welcomes back Victor Perez, a singer with the 90s tribute group Boy Band All Stars and the gospel group Singers of Soul. They talk through a short post of Victor's that Scott couldn't stop thinking about.

Victor describes the packed month that drained his social battery and the prayer God told him He wouldn't answer yet. That moment gave him a new understanding of what “love your neighbor as yourself” means. He also corrects his own first takeaway on air and names the harder truth he landed on instead.

Scott draws a clear line on biblical self love vs conceit and reads the “love is patient” passage from 1 Corinthians 13 aloud. Victor shares the one question he asks himself on hard days as a way of finding self worth in God's love. The two also get honest about social media and self worth, and why the most beautiful people in a room are often the most insecure.

Press play if you give freely to others and rarely extend that same grace to yourself. You'll leave with a clearer sense of how to love yourself as a Christian and why the people you serve need you rested and full first.

Episode Breakdown:

00:00 Victor's boy band and gospel group updates

02:56 The post about loving thy neighbor

03:52 A drained social battery and unanswered prayer

06:35 Self-love without the conceit

08:14 Why neglecting yourself is disobedience

11:04 Remembering who loves you more

14:48 You can't love God and hate your brother

16:01 Scott reads 1 Corinthians 13 aloud

20:24 Doing good to people who wrong you

22:09 Instagram, insecurity, and where self worth comes from

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