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‘Forgive Us’: Beth Moore Decries ‘Christian Celebrity Culture,’ Says Her Generation Did Younger Age Groups ‘a Disservice’

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By Tré Goins-Phillips
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December 9, 2022

Popular author and Bible teacher Beth Moore is decrying “Christian celebrity culture,” claiming her generation wrongly convinced younger age groups “speaking and teaching and traveling” made for a “glamorous” career.

Moore, 65, unfurled her thoughts in a lengthy Twitter thread posted Thursday.

“I think my generation did the younger generation(s) a disservice,” she wrote. “[B]y and large, I think my generation was the introduction to the platform culture. Definitely to the Christian celebrity culture, even if the last thing many of us were after was celebrity.”

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While hearts may have been genuine, Moore elaborated, many in her field “made speaking and teaching and traveling, and certainly book publishing, look glamorous.”

“And let me say, if it truly was glamorous for anyone, I (a) don’t know them, (b) would have to think they must have had myriads of people taking the hits and doing the hard work for them and keeping them untouchable,” she wrote. “I have zero respect for that, but that is another story. Here is what I want to say to those of you who are younger Christian servants, speakers, teachers or authors. It has always been hard.”

Moore went on to describe publishing a book as “terrifying” and later asked for forgiveness if she or others ever presented the illusion that life in the public sphere is “easy.”

“I want to say to you, if some of us made it look easy, forgive us,” she tweeted. “It never was. We had struggles at home, struggles abroad. We have failed as often as we could have succeeded. I have lived such an adventure with the Lord, and still expect adventure ahead. But it will always be a struggle.”

She continued, “It will always be a battle with the unseen as well as seen. And it will always be a battle with our own flesh and our own egos. There will always be criticism. There will always be offerings we make that will be rejected. Hang in there, you servants of the Lord.”

Moore turned to the Apostle Paul’s writing in Philippians 1:27-30, when he wrote, “and this is from God.” God allows “difficulties and disappointments and opposition” as “a gift” for “deliverance.”

“It’s just the truth,” wrote Moore. “The biblical truth. What God wants for Jesus followers is for us to be filled with his Spirit, not with ourselves.”

“God is so kind [and] generous to appoint a good many celebrations, and even some dreams that seem to come true,” she added. “But his objective with us is not to make us successful, but to make us reliant. He wants observers to see that a big God has been at work in us, not a big ego.”

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