Quote by Kay Arthur
“Motherhood is significant for yet another reason. Over the past twenty-five years, I have learned that not only does God use motherhood to change our children, but He also uses it to change us. I once read about a bumper sticker that said, “My children saved me from toxic self-absorption,” 32 and I laughed—and simultaneously thanked God. We live in a culture that constantly pushes us toward narcissism—and frankly, that’s precisely what the emphasis on pursuing our passions does too. But motherhood, unlike anything else I know, has the power to pull us outside of ourselves. It’s one of the only situations where we’re capable of loving someone more than we love ourselves, and we practice a level of servanthood that we would otherwise find impossible. Motherhood allows us to grow at an exponential rate and to be molded into Christ’s image. So much of who I am today, which enables me to do the ministry I do, was developed in the crucible of motherhood.”
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Kay Arthur is an international Bible teacher, four-time Gold Medallion award-winning author, and founder of Precept Ministries International.
Kay and her husband, Jack, were serving as missionaries in Mexico in the late 1960s when medical problems forced them to return to their hometown of Chattanooga, Tennessee. There Kay led a Bible study for teenagers in their living room. Soon the Bible study started meeting in a barn and attracting adults too. Soon after, Jack left his radio career to help expand his wife’s ministry into Precept Ministries International.
Hundreds of thousands of people are reached internationally through the "Precept upon Precept" inductive Bible studies series. In addition, Kay Arthur hosts daily and weekly television programs which air on over 900 stations in 30 countries around the world.
Kay also founded Transform Student Ministries. Transform Student Ministries is an equipping outreach of Precept Ministries International to high school and college age students. They exist to fulfill Precept’s mission and vision to each new generation: To establish people in God’s Word.