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AppMissio Dei App Text missiodeichicago app to 77977New 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”Major area of hurt and brokenness is emotional healthDuring the the next 6 weeks we’ll exploreEmotional healthDefined as our ability to be self-aware and love well Contemplative spiritualitySlowing down to cultivate our relationship with Jesus.

Peter Scazzero’s Emotional Healthy Spirituality Buy the Booklink in the AppWork through the resource throughout the week to mature in your emotional heal

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Missio Dei App Text missiodeichicago app to 77977

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”

Major area of hurt and brokenness is emotional health

During this series we are exploring

Emotional health

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

Contemplative spirituality

Slowing down to cultivate our relationship with Jesus

Peter Scazzero’s Emotional Healthy Spirituality

Last Week: Family History

Last Week: Family History

Going Back to Go Forward

Addressing our past in order to break cycles of generational sin

Our generation prides itself on openness

Openness can lead to distraction.

No longer living distracted lives

We can mistake being progressive as being open minded

We can mistake being progressive as being open minded,

Or using our circumstances as an excuse for personal sin and dysfunctional patterns.

That we can use our circumstances as an excuse for personal sin and dysfunctional patterns.

We can use our circumstances as an excuse for personal sin and dysfunctional patterns.

Avoids areas of dysfunction and pain

We can use our circumstances as an excuse for personal sin and dysfunctional patterns.

Avoids areas of dysfunction and pain

15 After these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision: “Fear not, Abram, I am your shield; your reward shall be very great.” 2 But Abram said, “O Lord GOD, what will you give me, for I continue childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?” 3 And Abram said, “Behold, you have given me no offspring, and a member of my household will be my heir.” 4 And behold, the word of the LORD came to him: “This man shall not be your heir; your very own son shall be your heir.”

“If we do not transform our pain, we will most assuredly transmit it.”

- Richard Rohr

“If we do not transform our pain, we will most assuredly transmit it.”

- Richard Rohr

Today: Journeying Through The Wall

Today: Journeying Through The Wall

If we do not transform our pain, we will most assuredly transmit it.

- Richard Rohr

How can our pain be transformed when God is seemingly absent.

In the 1987 U2 album, The Joshua Tree, the Song But I still haven't found what I’m looking for

I have climbed the highest mountains, I have run through the fields - Only to be with you

I have climbed the highest mountains, I have run through the fields

Only to be with you

Only to be with you

I have run I have crawled, I have scaled these city walls - Only to be with you

I have run I have crawled, I have scaled these city walls

Only to be with you

Only to be with you

But I still haven't found What I'm looking for

I have pursued and I have believed and still you are not there.

But I still haven't found What I'm looking for

This song resonates, because it speaks to those seasons, those stages of faith, when God is seemingly absent,

When the silence is defining and the need is desperate.

Mother Teresa.

“Jesus has a very special love for you.

As for me, the silence is so great I look and do not see, listen and do not hear.”

These seasons are real and critical stages of our faith, yet they tend to be avoided.

Growth and maturity in Christ requires going through the wall.

not to just get through it, stubborn, endurance

How we journey in these dry and dark seasons will result in either longterm pain or the perfecting of our story.

Embrace the journey.

The Experience

I feel dry

No movement in faith

I feel as if God has abandoned me

Chapter 12 

12 Now the LORD said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. 2 And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.

Now the LORD said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you.

And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.

- (ESV)

“If we do not transform our pain, we will most assuredly transmit it.”

- Richard Rohr

12 Now the LORD said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. 2 And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.

3 I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”

4 So Abram went, as the LORD had told him, and Lot went with him.

Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.

Chapter 15

15 After these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision: “Fear not, Abram, I am your shield; your reward shall be very great.” 2 But Abram said, “O Lord GOD, what will you give me, for I continue childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?” 3 And Abram said, “Behold, you have given me no offspring, and a member of my household will be my heir.” 4 And behold, the word of the LORD came to him: “This man shall not be your heir; your very own son shall be your heir.” - (ESV)

15 After these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision: “Fear not, Abram, I am your shield; your reward shall be very great.” 2 But Abram said, “O Lord GOD, what will you give me, for I continue childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?” 3 And Abram said, “Behold, you have given me no offspring, and a member of my household will be my heir.” 4 And behold, the word of the LORD came to him: “This man shall not be your heir; your very own son shall be your heir.”

After these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision: “Fear not, Abram, I am your shield; your reward shall be very great.”

But Abram said, “O Lord GOD, what will you give me, for I continue childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?”

And Abram said, “Behold, you have given me no offspring, and a member of my household will be my heir.”

And behold, the word of the LORD came to him: “This man shall not be your heir; your very own son shall be your heir.” - (ESV)

Chapter 21

12 Now the LORD said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. 2 And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.

3 I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”

4 So Abram went, as the LORD had told him, and Lot went with him.

Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.

The Lord visited Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did to Sarah as he had promised.

2 And Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age at the time of which God had spoken to him.