EP 10 : COURAGE, CALLING, COMMUNITY
Christine chats with Ashley Casebier, who shares her story of giving up the relative safety and security of corporate success to obey God’s calling in her career and in the context of community. They laugh about how they met, share tips on discerning God’s will, and discuss why both calling and community are commanded by God and require such courage.
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Our Guest
Ashley Casebier
Ashley is the owner and Executive Chef of Southern with a French Twist, a gathering company located in San Marcos, Texas. Their mission is to make it effortless for Texans to gather more with familiar yet elegant meals at the center of it all.
Ashley has a passion for hosting and bringing people together in a warm and inviting way, so she left her corporate career in technology to pursue her dream career and calling. Now she gets to live the culmination of her heart’s work every day, helping clients effortlessly gather through her company’s personal chef services.
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Scripture
John 15:12-14: My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends if you do what I command.
2 John 1:12: I have much more to say to you, but I don’t want to do it with paper and ink. For I hope to visit you soon and talk with you face to face. Then our joy will be complete.
Matthew 18:20: For where two or three gather together as my followers, I am there among them.
Hebrews 10:24-25: And let us consider one another in order to provoke love and good works, not neglecting to gather together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging each other, and all the more as you see the day approaching.
Quotes
“I think we are all dreamers in the beginning… but the older we get, the more we just want to surrender to security.” Ashley Casebier
“Lord, what is your calling for my life, not my calling for my life?” Ashley Casebier
“Neither obeying your calling nor being in community is safe. But they are both commanded.” Christine Chandler Prater
“The coolest part of this whole journey is that all I had to do after surrendering to God was just to be myself. He wired all of us to be specifically who we are and have these passions.” Ashley Casebier
“I was specifically created to do this and yes, it requires a lot of bravery, but it is running the race for the kingdom and I will sign up for that every day for the rest of my life.” Ashley Casebier
“We have got to be willing to sit at the feet of Jesus and sit at the table with people that are different from us.” Christine Chandler Prater
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