WETV Throwback: How To Be One Before The One X Sarah Jakes Roberts & Touré Roberts

Welcome to the unfiltered world of PT and SJR, where no topic is off-limits! Sis, they gathered with friends to dive into juicy discussions that had us giggling and taking notes. In this throwback conversation they invite us not just to observe, but to actively embody the art of being one. In a world saturated with couple-centric culture, grasping the concept of wholeness can feel like a daunting task. However, it’s time to shift our perspective and turn to timeless wisdom found in the good book – the Bible – to explore what it truly means to be one. There’s more in this episode that

I think as women, the idea that marriage is not the goal. It goes against everything.
Like, all of the things that society I mean, not even just church.
I mean, Disney is all about finding this happily ever after.
And I do think that there is a worthy deconstruction of our philosophies and even maybe some people’s theology that would allow us to focus on being all one within ourselves as opposed to finding the one.
Because when you tell a woman without someone in your life, you are incomplete, then women can walk around feeling like I’m half of a woman.
I’m not there yet. And I believe the most liberating thing that ever happened to me is when I was in my previous marriage, and I had this thought that crossed my mind, and it was, like, I can do better than this.
Like one to everyone else. I’m broken inside.
And so having to really come to that, uh, realization that all one didn’t necessarily mean being with someone Yeah.
Changing my life.
You know, it’s hitting me right now, and I’ve never seen this before, but revelation is flowing. All one.
There’s a in in Jewish thought and in biblical thought, there’s this phrase, and it’s based on a verse, and it’s called the and it’s in deuteronomy.
And it literally, it’s a founding fundamental principle in Judeo Christian, reality.
And it is the lord god is 1. The lord god is 1.
And so if we’re created in god’s image, well.
Then it is our our foundational identity to be like our creator who is all one. Yeah.
I’d never seen that before. I think we’re we’re onto something.
Oh my goodness. I’m sorry. You making my head spin.
When he said when you said that pastor, immediately, I thought of 1st Corinthians, 17.
Whoever’s joined to the lord is one spirit.
Now that’s it. Yeah. And where the spirit of the lord is. Come. There’s liberty. Come on. Liberty from chasing.
Trying to find somebody to be open on you. Going to go.
You’d have passed it. You’d have
passed it. It just
it just invigorated my spirit because whenever because I went I had been through some bad relationships and I was broken.
I felt lost. I feel like, okay, is this, is this all this to me?
Like, is it more to this? Is it just sex? Like, come on. Let’s, what’s more to this?
When I was broken in my room, I said, I need to discover who I am. Yeah.
And when I discover who he was, then I knew who I was. Yeah. You know what I mean?
It just, it’s just what you’re saying about being one with him is that’s where your identity is.
That’s where you can find wholeness, and that’s where you can really be, you know, maximize what you’ve been designed and created to do here.
You know what I mean?
So that’s so important. This month at Woman Evolve, we’re talking about hope to bloom.
And the center focus really is how do we position ourselves to really bloom.
And so confidence in different areas of our lives.
And I feel like this revelation is exactly the way that we can ensure stent blooming that we can make sure from season to season to season that we are discovering who we are in god, what that to the world we’re showing up in, and how do we show up as 1?
How do we pull back when we’re showing up in pieces?
Like, I’m not in a place to show up as 1. So I gotta create boundaries right now.
I’m not in a position to show up as 1.
So I gotta readjust my assignments and responsibilities because my ultimate goal is to make sure that I can show up as 1 Yeah.
It is. No matter where I am married or not. Kids or not. You know what I mean?
Like, I gotta be able to show up as 1 come back to 1 because one is where the confidence is.
It’s where the hope is. It’s where the glory is.
And
if it’s gonna flow, it’s gonna flow through 1.
The number one goal in life is to be whole. Now that’s gonna mess with some Christian’s theology.
Because I mean, like, no, the number one a a a goal in life. Hear me clearly. In life.
In life is to be over. They’re gonna say to be safe. No. No. No. No.
Because if that was a number one goal, the moment you we you got saved, you would be zapped. Wow.
But you’re still here. So why are you here within once they do the lord’s work, but you can’t do the the more holy you are Yeah.
Which makes you look more like your father, the better you can reflect god Wow. And do the lord’s work.
What if the number one objective, what have we created?
A culture in the church and in the world where the number one objective, the number one passion, and desire above fame fortune and whatever is ultimately to be whole because I have learned When I’m whole, I’m healthy.
Yeah. I’m wealthy. Yeah. Uh, I do relationships well. I mean, I mean, that’s the principle of balance.
Yeah. Okay. This is so good. Like, we have not been flowing like this.
We didn’t stumbled on to something.
Because I’m literally thinking, like, I’m thinking about the moments in my life where I’m not showing up as 1.
And to be able to capture a thought because it is an assignment against my oneness.
There you
go. There you go.
Get out of here.
There you go. Come on.
To categorize that properly, Like, this thought is an attack against my oneness.
So to show up anyway is an act of resistance. Because I must I gotta stay tight.
I gotta stay 1. And I already know what this thought is. I already know what that conversation’s gonna be.
I already know what this person from the it is an attack against my oneness.
And right now, I gotta say Can’t you
can’t you see? Okay. We gotta understand. Okay. But I hear I see one all throughout the Bible.
Yeah. The
father, son, and holy spirit. Now these 3 are 1. Yeah.
The word, the blood, the spirit, and these things are
1.
The all it’s 1 is all throupe, and the 2 shall become 1 is all throughout the scripture.
Yeah. Even if one lord, one faith, one baptism, one god, one father of all, who’s above all and threw on in one
This is crazy.