Week 13: Chapter 12 — Approved

1.Beth frames this chapter around one of the most powerful words in the New Testament for security: "accepted" or "approved" — the word in Ephesians 1:6 often translated "freely given" or "made accepted in the Beloved." What does it mean for your sense of worth that your approval is not earned but given — and given in Christ?

2.Romans 8:1 declares there is "therefore now no condemnation" for those who are in Christ Jesus. Beth applies this not just to guilt over sin but to the general verdict of inadequacy that insecurity pronounces over us every day. How would your inner life change if you truly believed there is no condemnation — not even the quiet, low-grade kind?

3.She argues that the reason many Christian women are still enslaved to insecurity is not that they don't believe the gospel — it's that they haven't applied it to this particular area. They know they are forgiven, but they don't know they are approved. Does that distinction resonate with you?