It’s difficult to grow spiritually while remaining emotionally immature. Instead of paying attention to the deep places of our life needing transformation, believers often focus on external matters- attending church, small groups, and busy work for the Lord. Everything looks okay on the surface, but what lies beneath? Join us as we begin a brand-new series.
Maturing in Christ
Speakers
Sarah Blount
Lead Pastor
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Emotional Health = Our ability to be self-aware and love well.
Dallas Willard
Spiritual Maturity is seen in the disciple who effortlessly does what Jesus would do in his or her place.
The goal of the series is to help you see that being emotionally healthy (a self-aware person who loves others well) is directly tied to your spiritual maturity (effortlessly doing what Jesus would do in your place).
Peter Scazzero
It’s impossible to be spiritually mature while remaining emotionally immature.
Unless what lies beneath is exposed and transformed by the love of Jesus Christ, we remain emotional infants.
Deeply transformed people have a powerful and lasting impact on the world.
Deeply deformed people have a powerful and lasting impact on the world.
Genesis 1:27
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
John 20:15
“Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you seeking?”
Our emotions matter to Jesus.
10 Symptoms of Emotional Unhealth:
1. Using God to Run from God
2. Ignoring Anger, Sadness and Fear
Peter Scazzero
To feel is to be human. To minimize or deny what we feel is a distortion of what it means to be image-bearers of God. To the degree that we are unable to express our emotions, we remain impaired in our ability to love God, others, and ourselves well.
3. Dying to the Wrong Things
4. Denying the Impact of the Past on the Present
Peter Scazzero
Jesus may be in your heart, but Grandpa is in your bones.
5. Dividing Life into “Secular” and “Sacred” Compartments
Greg Boyd
I believe the most prevalent and tragic misunderstanding that afflicts contemporary Western Christianity is that we make a vow to submit our life to Christ, but then spend 99 percent of our time excluding him from our awareness. We make him Lord over our life in theory, but we do not make him Lord over most of the moments that make up our life. The fact is, if we can’t discern God’s presence in our day to day lives, it’s unlikely that we’ll find him at a revival. We may find a lot of excitement, great speakers, superb music, and maybe even see signs and wonders, but unless a person learns to find God as much in the ordinary as in the exciting, the exciting will do nothing more than serve as a momentary distraction.
6. Doing for God Instead of Being with God
Peter Scazzero
But work for God is that not nourished by a deep interior life with God will eventually be contaminated by other things such as ego, power, needing approval of and from others, and buying into the wrong ideas of success and the mistaken belief that we can’t fail.
7. Spiritualizing Away Conflict
8. Living Without Limits
9. Judging Other People’s Spiritual Journey
10. Covering Over Brokenness, Weakness, and Failure
Slow down to be with God