Discipling By Jesus

Healing from “Childhood Emotional Neglect” (CEN)

Childhood Emotional Neglect (as a child or teen) results in emotional disconnect and lack of emotional intelligence.

In a marriage, one or both spouses …

Are we lying to ourselves?
Will listening better to our Others help us find the truth?

* I Told Me So: Self-Deception and the Christian Life
* Living Fearless - Jamie Winship

Coming up on Feb 14: VaLENTi…

How do we prove to the world that we don't need the same things they want?

Warning: spoiler alert for Crazy Rich Asians.

What if the true opposition to the gospel is hidden inside our own implicit assumptions about reality?

1. Identifying and confronting our emotional distress is essential for identifying our lack of align…

Does Jesus -- unlike Pharisees and philosophers -- require His disciples to sacrifice our "digital abstraction of self" in order to confront the emotional distress that lurks beneath?

During most of the gospels, the disciples wanted a king who would destroy their enemies rather than a savior who would destroy their sin.

My Christ-less failure mode is trying to destroy your sin ins…

Is a relationship with God about obeying His will or enjoying His presence?

Or something else entirely?

Should our highest value be allowing God to rewrite our values?

Can externalizing our eternal values enable us to maintain integrity while being fully emotional present for others?

What does it mean to love our community the way Christ does his friends?

• The Opposite Of Addiction Is Not Sobriety – It Is Human Connection

• Anthem: Follow The Way Of Christ (Becoming “Foot-Washers”)

• Joh…

What is needed to keep growing us all closer to Jesus?

• Our strategy (ultimate goal) is to love (hesed) the Lord our God with all our heart, all our soul, all our mind, and all our strength (particular…

What does Christ think about good and evil?

Is anyone more evil than "you"?

https://biblehub.com/luke/11-13.htm

"Productive Vulnerability" as the narrative protocol to both unmask our own self-deception and reveal the power of Christ.

This is the redemptive alternative to either withdrawal or control
(as a way …

Is working through "brokenness" (versus information or skill) our greatest challenge?

Ernie struggles with broken audio to explain the joy of sharing/healing our brokenness (aka sin) with Jesus.

Poetry…

What happens when the law meant to unite us ends up diving us?

Is God calling us to shift from Jehu to Elisha?

# Ernie

1. Not wanting to incarnate into other peoples dysfunction
2. Do I want to heal people from their brokenness so that I can identify with them? VS
3. Am I willing to identify with people in their brokenne…

How do we balance the tension between:

• Performance: getting the job done
• Conformance: getting along

Precisely by confronting those areas where we are unable to hold that tension,
in order to experience C…

# Decenter Civilization 

- Civilization as we know it is endemically (widely? intrinsically?) corrupt
- This corruption is manifest in individuals caught up in a systemic web of toxic incentives
- We ca…

What is the source of large-scale, structural evil?
Is it endemic to civilization?
Can civilization be reformed, or must it be transformed?

# Decenter Civilization 

- Civilization as we know it is endemi…

Discussion of 5/21 Poem: Peaceful See

Robby's Feel/Like/Observe/Wonder:

1. F: Ambivalent
2. L: Moving from Blindness to Seeing
3. O: Focuses on sin within
4. W: Is this the ONLY way God calls us to overcome societal …