Ebookwormy1's Reviews > Girl Wash your Face

This book hit my radar after hearing some moms discuss it. This week, a review floated across my Facebook feed, and I checked it out to see if I should bump it up or down on my to-reads. After reading this review, I have shelved it with books I've decided not to read.

Here's the link:
https://www.alisachilders.com/blog/gi...

The quote that stands out to me the most is listed below. It grieves me that this ephemeral culture speak has come to define American Christianity in the eyes of many. This is not following Jesus Christ! This is the world, washing your heart and mind with it's dirt! This is #JesusJunk.

"What is Rachel Hollis' dream? I felt actual sadness when I read it:

I’m a big fan of displaying visuals inside my closet door to remind me every single day of what my aim is. Currently taped to my door: the cover of Forbes featuring self-made female CEOs, a vacation house in Hawaii . . . and a picture of Beyoncé, obvi."

Jesus never called us to chase after power, money, and fame (and He actually had quite a bit to say about those things). He called us to lay our pursuit of all that stuff down and follow Him. He said, “Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it." (Matthew 10:39)."

Another passage that comes to mind is:
"I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. 2 Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.3 For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned." Romans 12:1-3

This chase after your dreams mentality is not worship of God our Father, and the LORD Jesus Christ. It is not walking in the Holy Spirit. It is not transforming your mind, and it doesn't pass the discernment test. It is not good, not acceptable, not perfect. We are not to find purpose by thinking more of ourselves or by magnifying our significance in the world. We find purpose and victory by offering our lives to Him, allowing Him to transform our hearts and minds, and magnifying JESUS' significance in the world.

The best thing about Girl, Wash Your Face, has been the encouragement of finding an excellent thinker in Alissa Childers who took the time to read it, consider it in light of God's Word and relationship with Jesus Christ, and write an excellent review to benefit others.
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In June 2020, Rachel Hollis and her husband announced they were divorcing. Anne Kennedy posted this excellent article about Hollis' work that I think is helpful to anyone considering Hollis' teaching. Here's the article and a quote from it....
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/prevent...

The section that really hit me is....
"The thing I kept muttering to myself as I endured Girl, Wash Your Face, and honestly also, Untamed, was “Girl, read a book.” You don’t have to be a scholar to be interested in worlds outside of yourself. It’s like all these poor Christian musicians (I think there was another one last week) who wake up and think, “Oh, goodness, this religion thing is completely at odds with this singular cultural moment, it must therefore be wrong” without stopping for even the length of a YouTube video to read any of the thousands of Christians who have been thinking about Jesus for millennia. Or the thug applying graffiti to a statue of Abraham Lincoln because, well, this is speculation on my part, the existence of any old statue necessarily indicates racism. Glennon Doyle prattled on about the unlived lives of women without reading about, as far as I can tell, any women who lived interesting lives, any complex fictional characters even, nor even a single woman in the Bible.

None of us need to make everything up with each new generation. How to live a good life, how to be married, how to raise children has been going on for a long time. You can find out information about these things in books. Lots of those books are even online. You don’t need to get all your help from YouTube and Instagram. Or even any of your help. Girl, Read A BOOK."