{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Ministry Wives and Women Podcast with Andrea Griffith","title":"Why Pretending to Be Strong Is Killing Your Ministry","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1820,"description":"What if the strength you're projecting is actually the thing keeping you from Jesus? What if the \"keeping it together\" you learned in church culture is the very facade Jesus called out in the Pharisees?\nIn this episode, Andrea sits down with her friend Megan Thompson — pastor's wife at Bay Cities Fellowship in Tampa, children's director, and high school English teacher — for an honest conversation about gospel vulnerability. Megan shares how a gifted copy of *Give Them Grace* and re-reading the *Jesus Storybook Bible* began to undo decades of believing she had to be the hero of her own story. Along the way: a 7-year-old's jelly-shoe exit down the center aisle, the fear of planting a church, and the beauty of repentance as the place Jesus actually meets us.\nYou'll hear why our righteousness is Christ's, why time and space matter before we share, and how to keep going when vulnerability gets wounded. You are not alone — and Jesus is still the only Hero and Rescuer in the story.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/EiuIGCrfzj8QD0h6cORO3MbZWMmgKYuXVCNPjBE6A9U/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9jMGU3/OGQyMDBkNWExYmY5/MzE2NDc4N2RjNDBi/YTEyZS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}