Labels are everywhere! We live in a world that labels everything from coffee cups and clothing to food ingredients and designer fashions.While labels are helpful for certain things, they can be incredibly damaging when they define peopletheir value, character, or significance.Change must begin to take place. So, where do we begin?We begin by learning how to love without labels.Few people understand this better than Barbara Newman. For more than 30 years, Barbara has provided education, inspiration, and transformation for churches and families typically disregarded by society. It is easyto place significant value on what one does, how one looks, where one lives, what one drives, or what one wearsall dependent on what we deem valuable. And when it comes to those who are differentthose labeled as diseased, deformed, disabled, depressed, poor, weaktheir lives are most often disregarded. Candidly, such attitudes and actions are thoroughly divergent from Christ’s model and teaching.Tragically, the church is not exempt from attaching labels.I am convinced that if Christ and the disciples attended a church today, they would be looked down upon because of their appearance, what they did, where they lived, and what they said. Stop and think about it for a moment. Isaiah even said there was nothing externally impressive about Christ, but Christ came because He views all of us as priceless, unconditionally loved, so significant that He died for us.We hope this interview that Colleen and Barbara shared in 2014 encouragesyou to examine where labels might exist in your life and in your church and how we can, as Christ's body, move beyond condemning labels.You can listen to Colleen's interviews with world influencers on the following podcatchers:Apple Podcasts,Spotify,Stitcher,Google Podcasts,TuneInor watch them onYouTubeConnect with Colleen Swindoll Thompson and Reframing Ministries onFacebook,Instagram,Twitter!Looking for a specific interview with Colleen Swindoll Thompson? Visitthis pageto help your search!We would love your support in providing Strength for Today and Hope for Tomorrow for Caregivers and their families! Reframing Ministries is supported only by the generous gifts and donations of our listeners and viewers. We would be honored to have your partnership with us in prayer and infinancial support.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.lightsource.com/donate/1110/29