Self-Actualized

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Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

Principles

Everyone climbs this hierarchy throughout their lives. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-4ithG_07Q)

Physical needs

Safety

Love and Belonging

Esteem

Self-actualization (DEFINE)

You can’t have a higher one without all the lower ones. (ILL: A person who is hungry and in danger cannot be consumed with the philosophical concepts necesary to know who they really are.)

Greater Hierarchy

We don’t live for more and more like the Gentiles (20, cf. 19)

How we know Christ

Hearing about him

Teaching by/of him

Believing the truth in him

Self-actualization is the way of the world

self-actualization is knowing the old-self

putting on the new-self means we realize who we are in Christ

The way of Jesus is to realize who God made you to be—righteous, holy, in every way

Maslow and Evangelism

No one is better off unless they know Jesus, no matter where they are on Maslow’s hierarchy

Becoming all things to all people to win some (REF)

Tiers of Maslow’s with practical tools

Helps Ministry

Basic physical needs—ILL: Jesus fed the 4k and 5k so that he could teach them about the kingdom

feeding, clothing, etc.

Mercy Ministry

Safety—ILL: Jesus came to set captives free, bondage to sin analogy

Helping people through legal issues

Helping people through housing or health issues

Helping people through sin issues

Community/Family

Love—ILL: Family of God motif

Hospitality

Community

Kingdom/Leadership

Esteem—ILL: Kingdom of God motif

rulership

value

freedom

Purpose

Self-Actualization—no one is as actualized as they really want to be—put on the new-self cf. put on Christ (REF)

Life isn’t about becoming who you can become.

Life is about becoming something far greater than you could ever become.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0V-jF9iurHA — Why we don’t evangelize

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Definition of Self-actualization

[MASLOW SLIDE] Flaw, ILL: Hangry (A self-actualized person can still not work hungry)

Still a good tool for understanding

SA is about becoming the best version of yourself

humanism

issue is the sinful nature

Gentiles live for more and more (19) — your best life now

There’s something bigger when you know Christ

“Your best life now” is not how you came to know Christ (20)

Assuming you do know him (21) — hearing, teaching, believing (truth)

You know Christ by taking off the old self (22)

more and more = deceitful desires

SA is getting the best portion of what the flesh wants out of this life

“and to put on the new self” (24a)

How? (23, cf. ) believing and filling your mind with truth

What is the new self? (24)

God’s likeness (cf. Genesis), righteousness, purity of truth

Truth purifies us—makes us righteous, restores God’s likeness

Jesus is the truth and Maslow [ALTERNATE SLIDES]

What does this look like? How does Jesus minister to the person in every stage?

Explain how Jesus gives us a better reality than Maslow

Explain how Jesus gives us a better reality than Maslow

Maslow and evangelism [JESUS SLIDE]

Explain how outreach strategy moves people up the pyramid

Explain how outreach strategy moves people up the pyramid

EXH: True self-actualization is letting go of yourself and embracing Christ no matter what the cost is, believing that in every way He is better and you will be better through Him.