A Christian Women's Website

Why Tabitha's Team?

Christian women may be the most stressed-out people in the world.

Somewhere in the middle of Proverbs 31, we have all come close to a nervous breakdown. The sun beat us out of bed, we’re out of cereal, and our children did a lot of mumbling as they got up, but we’re pretty sure they did not call us “blessed.” We’ve already failed on three counts, and it’s not even eight o’clock. We’ll try harder tomorrow… Is this the life God intended when he saved us?

It sounds silly, but this is what we do.

Christian women tend to think that striving to meet a standard brings us closer to godliness.

But God wants the glory for his grace, and we better not forget it.

God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble. (James 4:6b)

Wow. God is not just annoyed by the proud. He opposes the proud. The minute we take the task of living our lives as Christian women into our own hands, we put ourselves opposite of God.

Who do you think will win that battle?

If you are striving to match a role model of "the perfect Christian woman" (such as that lovely Proverbs 31 goddess) you have lost your focus. Chip Ingram wrote about this struggle in Holy Ambition:

As we walk with God in radical faith, we must be on our guard so that we do not compare ourselves with others. Comparison is always the road toward carnality, where the focus shifts from what God is doing to what we think we are doing for him.

It doesn’t matter that since we became Christians we compare ourselves to Biblical women instead of magazine cover models.

We are comparing ourselves to others, and therefore focusing on what we are doing for God.

So what do we do with these famous women in the Bible? They are part of God’s word, right? Aren’t we supposed to learn from them?

Yes, we are, and when we study them we will find that these famous Bible women were favored because their first priority was a relationship with God, and from that relationship amazing works poured out.

This is why I have chosen the concept of Tabitha’s Team.

We know very little about Tabitha, except that she was a disciple in the early church. Her first priority was being a disciple, a follower of Jesus. Out of this closeness to her savior flowed a life of “always doing good works and helping the poor.” (Acts 9:36)

We really don’t know much about her works, and I’m sure that it does not matter to Tabitha. I don’t know for certain, but I’ll bet when you get to heaven and ask her about it, all she will remember is the joy of her daily walk with Jesus.

On this Christian women's website, we will explore what it means to:

• Seek first to be disciples
• Encourage each other
• Break free from perfectionism
• Live as servants of Jesus

Be sure to find out all of the ways you can participate here at Tabitha's Team. Share you story, ask a question to one of our team members, and use our servants blog to let us know about opportunities to help others.

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Kelly Harbaugh