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Session 1

In this session we start examining the disconnect between emotional maturity and spiritual maturity. Emotions you don't understand control you. What do we do with the unpacked emotions in the box? 

Our Unpacked Box of Emotions (Part 1)

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This educational series, with Randy Gariss, addresses the often-neglected aspect of emotional maturity, particularly in the context of spiritual growth. It begins by exploring the disconnect between emotional and spiritual maturity, illustrating how unprocessed emotions can exert control over us. The second session discusses the pitfalls of transferring misunderstood emotions onto physical entities, emphasizing that these cannot provide genuine healing. The third session introduces the discipline of silence and solitude as modeled by Jesus, as a means to begin processing these emotions. The subsequent session discusses the power of narrative in shaping our reactions to our experiences, stressing the importance of reshaping these narratives with Christ's story. The series further emphasizes the essential discipline of friendship as a healing mechanism and provides principles from the book of Proverbs on forming such friendships. It explores the interplay between thoughts and feelings, discussing ways to cultivate right direction thinking. The last two sessions delve into living in wholeness, discussing the ten essentials for a life of wholeness, and the difference between simply surviving life and truly living it. The series concludes by reinforcing that emotional maturity is a key component of discipleship in Christ.

Emotional Maturity

This series investigates emotional maturity in a spiritual context, highlighting the impact of unprocessed emotions, the role of narrative, the power of friendships, and the importance of healthy thought patterns for living in wholeness and discipleship in Christ.

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The disconnect between emotional maturity and spiritual maturity.

1 Thessalonians 5:23-24

Box of Emotions
- The emotions you haven’t unpacked have great control over you.
- We take emotions out into the light, get assistance from the Lord and wise people in
understanding them, and then putting them back in our box in a far “tamer” and healthy
way.
- We don’t unpack the box because:
  - Activity-based culture not a relationship-based culture
  - Family’s “permissible emotions”

What do we do with the unpacked emotions in the box?
- The emotions you don’t understand are transferred to the “permissible ones”.

Galatians 5:22-23

1 Thessalonians 5:23-24

Our Unpacked Box of Emotions (Part 1)

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