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New Series: Emotional Healthy Spirituality

Guided by the ethos of our value of renewal.

"we experience God’s restorative power flowing into and mending the broken and hurting places, and we join the stream of this grand renewal project by making known the all encompassing love of JESUS in our neighborhoods & city”

Our value of renewal is that "we experience God’s restorative power flowing into and mending the broken and hurting places, and we join the stream of this grand renewal project by making known the all encompassing love of JESUS in our neighborhoods & city

"we experience God’s restorative power flowing into and mending the broken and hurting places, and we join the stream of this grand renewal project by making known the all encompassing love of JESUS in our neighborhoods & city”

Major area of hurt and brokenness is emotional health

Major area of hurt and brokenness is emotional health

Two guiding categories for this series are Emotional health, defined as our ability to be self-aware, and love well and Contemplative spirituality--slowing down to cultivate our relationship with Jesus.

During the the next 6 weeks we’ll explore

Emotional health

Emotional health

Defined as our ability to be self-aware and love well

Love well and Contemplative spirituality--slowing down to cultivate our relationship with Jesus.

Contemplative spirituality

Slowing down to cultivate our relationship with Jesus.

6 week series on emotional healthy spirituality.

6 week series on emotional healthy spirituality.

Six week series on emotional healthy spirituality.

Wk 1: The Problem of Emotionally Unhealthy Spirituality

The Problem of Emotionally Unhealthy Spirituality

Wk 2: Knowing Yourself that You May Know God

Knowing Yourself that You May Know God

Wk 3: Going Back to Go Forward

Going Back to Go Forward

Wk 4: Journeying through the Wall

Journeying through the Wall

Wk 5: Daily Rhythms and Sabbath

Daily Rhythms and Sabbath

Wk 6: Growing into an Emotionally Mature Adult

Growing into an Emotionally Mature Adult

Peter Scazzero’s Emotional Healthy Spirituality

Peter Scazzero’s Emotional Healthy Spirituality

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Buy the Book

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Work through the resource throughout the week to mature in your emotional health

Work through the resource throughout the week to mature in your emotional health

1 Samuel 15

Biblical Case Study for a lack of emotional health is Saul

First King of Israel

Anointed King of Israel tasked with the total destruction of Amalek

Set apart from all other… Started well… Character compromised

He was tasked with the total destruction of Amalek

Spared the King and the best of the sheep and of the oxen and of the fattened calves and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them.

All that was despised and worthless they devoted to destruction.

When the time came Saul

Spared the King

The best livestock

All that was good

All that was despised and worthless was devoted to destruction.

The word of the LORD came to Samuel and told him of Saul’s disobedience.

[Please stand out of reverence for the Word of God]

[Please stand out of reverence for the Word of God]

13 And Samuel came to Saul, and Saul said to him, “Blessed be you to the Lord.

I have performed the commandment of the Lord.”

17 And Samuel said, “Though you are little in your own eyes, are you not the head of the tribes of Israel?

The LORD anointed you king over Israel.

18 And the LORD sent you on a mission and said, ‘Go, devote to destruction the sinners, the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are consumed.’

19 Why then did you not obey the voice of the LORD?

Why did you pounce on the spoil and do what was evil in the sight of the LORD?”

17 And Samuel said, “Though you are little in your own eyes, are you not the head of the tribes of Israel?

The Lord anointed you king over Israel.

18 And the Lord sent you on a mission and said, ‘Go, devote to destruction the sinners, the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are consumed.’

19 Why then did you not obey the voice of the Lord?

Why did you pounce on the spoil and do what was evil in the sight of the Lord?”

The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles, 2016), .

24 Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned, for I have transgressed the commandment of the Lord and your words, because I feared the people and obeyed their voice.

25 Now therefore, please pardon my sin and return with me that I may bow before the Lord.” 26 And Samuel said to Saul, “I will not return with you.

For you have rejected the word of the Lord, and the Lord has rejected you from being king over Israel.”

27 As Samuel turned to go away, Saul seized the skirt of his robe, and it tore.

28 And Samuel said to him, “The Lord has torn the kingdom of Israel from you this day and has given it to a neighbor of yours, who is better than you.

29 And also the Glory of Israel will not lie or have regret, for he is not a man, that he should have regret.”

30 Then he said, “I have sinned; yet honor me now before the elders of my people and before Israel, and return with me, that I may bow before the Lord your God.” 31 So Samuel turned back after Saul, and Saul bowed before the Lord.

The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles, 2016), .

Openning Prayer

It is in the confession of our brokenness that the real strength of new and everlasting life can be affirmed and made visible.

- Henri Nouwen

The LORD Rejects Saul

The LORD Rejects Saul

Samuel confronts the character of Saul

Saul presents himself as healthy

“Blessed be you to the Lord.

I have performed the commandment of the Lord.”

Note at the end of the chapter Agag the king of the Amalek’s responds in a similar manner.

Agag the king of the Amalek’s

Presenting himself in a cheerful disposition

Everything is ok

What lies underneath what we present to others?What are the triggers?Saul attempts to shift blameI did this for sacrifice, not spoil.Verse 20, I did, the people took the spoil...And Samuel said,  “Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord?

Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.

The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles, 2016), .Obedience is better than sacrifice obey. . .

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