This wasn’t the last time she would turn to God for healing. “First, I want the Healer glorified, not the hurt and second, a greater number of people can relate to more general terms. “I never share the details of my childhood victimization for two reasons,” Moore says in Breaking Free. But that doesn’t mean she’s felt compelled to share all the details of the horrible ordeal. It’s a feeling that unfortunately many women can relate to, Moore says. “ scars from being a childhood victim of someone else’s problem.” In the preface to her Breaking Free workbook, she shares how she felt so violated and ashamed that she didn’t even want to wear white on her wedding day. I’m not really into the political scene.”Ībused by someone outside of her immediate family as a child, Moore’s scars ran deep and followed her into adulthood. “That’s what I love and feel most called to. Moore admits she steers clear of denominational issues. “Beth would be strong to tell you that she doesn’t think a woman should be a preacher,” he says. Their relationship stands out as unique in a denomination where leaders assert that women should not be pastors or hold prominent positions of leadership over men in a church.īisagno, however, said Moore never went against Southern Baptist beliefs. Moore wanted to make sure she knew her stuff, and Bisagno played a big role in her development. It’s in her commitment to the Word and applying it. “She’s had private Greek lessons,” Bisagno says of Moore’s devotion to biblical scholarship.

Perhaps her most popular study, called Breaking Free, drew from Moore’s personal experiences to show believers how they can be released from the trappings of sin or pain and experience joy and freedom in Christ. Moore’s deep yearning to know Scripture led her to write a number of studies based on the lives of biblical figures like David, Paul, and even Jesus. And all I can tell you is when I began to pray that, he started to do it.” “I prayed to love God more than I love any other thing in all of life. “I began to pray two things,” she remembers. But as she watched the teacher lovingly pore over Scripture, Moore realized something was missing in her life. To strengthen her knowledge of the Bible, she enrolled in a doctrine class at church that she secretly feared would be boring. It was volunteering to teach Sunday school more than a decade ago at First Baptist that helped Moore realize she didn’t know Scripture the way she desired. and across the world as one of the most respected and sought-after Bible teachers. These activities don’t sound nearly as exciting as the life Moore leads today-dashing around the U. She invited groups of women into her home for Bible study and led a monthly prayer breakfast. She led an aerobics class that often ended with a short devotion. In the early 1980s, while she was still trying to discern how God wanted to use her in full-time ministry, Moore helped take care of kids at her church during the week so that other moms could take a midday break. She has also taught conferences for women in numerous countries, including Ireland, England, Singapore, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and India. Moore’s Living Proof Live conferences have taken her to thirty-nine states since 1994 and have been attended by more than 421,000 women. Through the years American missionaries and expatriates have taken the Bible studies overseas, resulting in Beth Moore Bible study groups popping up all over the world. Through her books, the Internet, DVD, video, and audiotape, women from every denomination around the world have participated in her Bible studies, while many others have listened to her on the radio or heard her speak in person. Moore’s books include Breaking Free, Believing God, and When Godly People Do Ungodly Things. Moore writes books based on the regular Bible studies that she conducts at the Living Proof Live conferences and at her local church, First Baptist Church, Houston, Texas. In 20, Moore, along with Kay Arthur and Priscilla Shirer, founded Deeper Still: The Event, a LifeWay weekend conference featuring the three women.

(3) Moore also teaches through her radio show, Living Proof with Beth Moore, and appears as a regular on the television program LIFE Today, where she hosts Wednesdays with Beth. (4) Women from around the world sit under Moore’s teaching at Living Proof Live conferences, sponsored by LifeWay Christian Resources. It is based in Houston, Texas, and it primarily focuses on aiding women who desire to model their lives on evangelical Christian principles. Beth Moore founded Living Proof Ministries, a biblically-based organization for women, in 1994.

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