Preview and Input

Preview and Input

Next Sunday I will be speaking on the topic: What We Most Need to Know About Ourselves.  Here’s your chance to weigh in and contribute to my prep.

Ten years ago, a popular book, Emotional Intelligence, written by Daniel Goleman highlighted research about how an effective self-awareness and an awareness of the emotions and experiences of others played a greater role in a successful life than previously understood.  The ability to be self-aware and responsive to what that awareness reveals is one of the remarkable qualities of being human.

Not knowing what we most need to know about ourselves causes all sorts of problems.  Denial about our struggles, compensation through high-achievement efforts.  Pressure, pressure, pressure. 

Think of how many popular movies are transformation movies, where someone experiences a crisis that teaches them who they really are, and they become transformed in the process.  The Christmas Carol is such a story, and it gets re-made over and over again.  Avatar has a similar theme.  What are other movies that are about personal transformation?

 

What does God want us to most know about ourselves?

What’s most true about us?

What is the self-paradigm that motivates you?

 

There’s a general answer or two that applies to every human being, and then there are particulars that apply to us individually.  We will look mostly at the general things that we need to know.

Check out Psalm 8 to see a pretty amazing description of humanity. 

Then check out Romans 7:14-25.   Crowned with glory or wretched.  Which is it?

 

What do you think that we most need to know about ourselves?