However, the first publication, Now That Faith Has Come, A Study of Galatians, written with Melissa Moore, “is doing well,” she says, and is a finalist for an ECPA award in the Bible Study category. Moore now publishes church curricula through her ministry, which initially suffered from the blowback from the SBC break and with the Covid pandemic lockdown shutting down public events. The break is still so freshly painful, she says, that speaking about it with PW "brought tears to her eyes.” She’s still grateful for much the SBC gave her: “I was taught to love missions, to love the scriptures, to share my faith, to share that Jesus is my life.” I got to a point of doubting strongly their motives,” including views that were "more about power than about Scripture," she said.Įven so, Moore spoke of cherishing and respecting many people within the SBC. “The fundamentalist far right went way too far for me. The memoir details how she found herself increasingly at odds with denominational leadership’s public political stances, limitations on women’s roles, lack of action for racial justice, and failure to care for abuse victims. In 1994, she launched her speaking ministry with events under the banner of Living Proof Live, which has reached an estimated 2 million women.īut in recent years, she felt like, “I am one tweet, one statement, away from blowing up the entire ministry,” Moore says. She was leading some Bible study classes for women when they asked for “homework.” Those lessons evolved into writing church curricula and 25 Bible studies that over 26 years made millions for Lifeway. Bit by bit, she moved toward her other great love, writing. I hate to miss a good era so give me some leg warmers! I loved it,” she recalled. “It was the early ‘80s- the peak of the aerobics era. She majored in political science in college and then spent 12 years teaching aerobics at a Houston megachurch Family Life Center. “My home was the unsafe place, and my church was the safe place.”īy 18, she knew she wanted to minister, but the path seemed obscure. Before there was #ChurchToo and #MeToo, she says, she endured sexual abuse as a child in a “tremendously unstable home” surrounded by complicated people who hurt her, who loved her, and who took her to church whenever its doors were open. Her memoir of “the most bizarre life!” says Moore, 64, is her therapeutic effort to come to terms with the complex characters, traumatic moments, and rude awakenings that have led her to proclaim Jesus to one and all. “I am definitely an evangelist,” Moore told PW in an exclusive interview. And, Watson says, everyone who’s seen it so far calls it “unexpected.” The main idea is no surprise: The millions of readers of her Bible studies and ancillary devotionals, who’ve attended events at her Living Proof Live ministry over 24 years, and who follow her on massively popular social media accounts, know she is all about Jesus. All My Knotted-Up Life will be published in April 2023 with a “strong six-figure commitment” for the first printing,” backed with a “significant” marketing budget, says publisher Karen Watson.
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