So, the big question I get asked is, "Can an empath really be a Christian too?" Let's
solve this. Let's talk about this. And just make sure we're very clear that
impasse can be Christian too.
Hey, welcome back. Let's talk about a great topic here because if you clicked
on this video, you probably are having tendencies to them being an empath or
you've recognized you have empath qualities. Now, how does this play into
being a Christian? You know, Is an empath, a actually a spiritual gift? Well, I am
NOT going to be the one to you know, decide if it's a spiritual gift or not.
But it is a gift that someone has that not everybody has. You know, how one
person can play baseball really well and another person can't. Well, that person
who can play baseball really well is gifted at baseball. Somebody who has
really good handwriting and another person who doesn't have it. Well that
person's really gifted with handwriting. Now, my grandma she was gifted at making
cookies. Nobody could make cookies like my grandma. And I can follow the exact
same recipe and just mess it up. This just doesn't happen. So, we noticed that
some people are better than other people in different areas of life. So, an empath
is somebody who is better at being in tune with other people. So, some people
have that gift and some people don't have that gift. Now, could everybody learn
how to be an empath actually. I think they could I really do just like I could
learn how to be really good at baseball or bake cookies or my handwriting
ability. But where we are naturally gifted at. For some reason, our mind, our
body, our soul all comes together to be naturally gifted in certain places. Now, a
person who's an empath could be a natural empath or somebody who is
actually practiced to be very in tune with themselves. So that they could be
really in tune with others. So, now we're going to add the
piece here about being Christian. Okay, well let's talk about what a
Christian is. A Christian is someone who believes in Christ. You know, you read the
Bible and you read scripture and and Christ was born in Bethlehem and
Christ grows up. And any leads and inspires people to follow the gospel and
you can read in Matthew Mark Luke and John and the Bible and read about
Christ's life. So, a Christian is someone who follows Christ's teachings. So, a
Christian is somebody who seeks for truth. Seeks for the good things of life,
that's a Christian. Now, you have an empath. Somebody who's in tune to other
people and they care about people. So could an empath be a Christian? Well, that
makes sense that they could, right? It's like, why would that disqualify them? But
it's a question people ask. But why would that disqualify them? Why would
an empath not be able to be a Christian? Well, I can give you some reasons. A
person who follows Christ, looks to Christ as the one who is their Savior.
Sometimes an empath can act like a Savior.
Sometimes empaths who don't know about Christ may feel like they're the one who
is going to save people. They're the ones who's going to you know fix people. And
sometimes empaths can get in their head that their gift is that
they're the ones who fix people, save people, solve people's lives. And that
gift came from nowhere. It just is their own gift. So, if an empath is all about a
savior mentality, that empath is going to have difficulty being a Christian
because Christians believe that Christ helps them. And that all gifts come from
Christ. So, I guess you could have some a little bit of out of alignment there
between an empath who is acting like a savior and then here's
Christians who look to a savior. So, there could be a a little bit of a clash there
between an empath who's thinking that way and a Christian. But what if you had
an empath who gave credit to Christ for their gift. Well, that's a empath who's a
Christian, right? So, I think it matters about the way the empath is looking at
it. Now, you need to be careful about how you look at people who are empaths. If
you look at a person who's empath and you make a judgment about them, you make
a judgment about them and say, "Oh, well. They're not Christian." Well, you have no
idea how that person thinks. You have no idea how they've aligned themselves in
life. Are they trying to be the savior? Or do they give credit to the Savior? You
don't know that person. And you know what's interesting about us as people as
we tend to look at anything that's different. And sometimes we look at
something that's different and then we immediately call it bad. But sometimes,
different is good. And when a person you meet that is an empath, they could show
you something you could have if you practiced it. Now, I've met moms and dads
who wish they could be more in tune with her kids. They wish they understood their
children better. They wish they understood how their children feels. You
talk to a mom who's trying to have a good relationship with her teenage son.
And what you're going to notice is she wishes she understood her teenage
daughter in how she feels and or her teenage son and how she feels. So, what
that mom is actually asking for, she wants this empath type of gift. So that
she can sense and feel her children at a much more clear level. So, an empath is
not a weirdo. I don't care how you try to make... Now, the person could be a weirdo
and how they're being an empath. But the actual gift and talent of empath is not
bad is something that if used correctly could help people. And
you could be in tune with people to help them understand their feelings. I have
empath tendencies. I sense and feel people and how they think and feel so I
can help them coach them. I can coach them, I can mentor them. But to check this
in out and go can an empath be a Christian? Yes.
Could an empath not be a Christian? Yes. And how are you going to know if the empath
you know is Christian or not? Maybe you need to just wait and find out. So, if
you're an empath and you didn't even consider these thoughts about how you're
being and how you're acting, maybe something to think about is this gift
you have is to serve people. And instead of taking all the credit for how you're
able to help people, maybe there's credit to be given
somewhere else. Maybe there's credit to be given to your Creator.
Whoever you see your Creator to be. So, yes, empath can be Christians. And yes,
empaths cannot be Christian. It depends on the person. So, while we're talking
about this, let's look into this. You have the opportunity to develop the gift and
talent of being sensitive and being in tune with people. And I'll tell you this,
moving forward in life, those people who are sensitive and that can be in tune
with people are going to be much better people. Because of those who are not in
tune are going to struggle. Those parents who are not sensitive to their children
are going to struggle. So, before you ever mock or tease or kind of poke fun at
somebody who has a very heightened awareness of others and as an empath.
Instead of kind of you know writing them off as strange and weird, maybe pay
attention. Maybe you're lacking that ability to be
in tune. And you need to look into it and find out
how can you be more sensitive. Not sensitive as in you're an emotional
wreck. But sensitive that you can sense and feel other people. And so that you
can care. You can care enough to be in touch with them. Because we as a human
race we need help. We are way too cold, way too harsh, way too critical about
each other. And then we go home and we think now we're going to be, all lovey
and dovey and caring with the people at home? No. We need to step it up in being
sensitive ourselves and a great step to make that work is to want to
understand people. If you could wake up tomorrow morning and say, "I want to
understand people." You could activate those abilities to start to listen not
only with your ears but listen with your eyes and listen with your heart. You got
3 parts of you that listens. You got your ears, your eyes and your heart that
can listen to a person. But you got to turn those on. You got to activate those
attributes about yourself so that you can be better at connecting to people.
What you'll notice is if you turn those on where you listen with your ears, your
eyes and your heart, you'll start to notice that you're going t have those
empath type of characteristics. And then we'll wonder about you. "Are you a weirdo?"
No! You're not a weirdo. You're not. But what the people needs is more people to
be sensitive and caring to each other that we fully listen. Yes, empahts can be
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