The rule of thumb is that if someone is able to be verbally or physically abusive, he or she is able to understand that the behavior is wrong.
Edward T. WelchWe spend too much time wondering what others may have thought about our outfit or the comment we made in the small group meeting. We see opportunities to testify about Christ, but we avoid them. We are more concerned about looking stupid (a fear of people) than we are about acting sinfully (fear of the Lord).
Edward T. WelchSpeaker says psychology has commandeered "everything hard" and partitioned it from Scripture with the assumption that its causes are biological
Edward T. WelchTags: psychology mental-illness
Fear” in the biblical sense…includes being afraid of someone, but it extends to holding someone in awe, being controlled or mastered by people, worshipping other people, putting your trust in people, or needing people.
Edward T. WelchTags: fear biblical codependency
1. We fear people because they can expose and humiliate us.
2. We fear people because they can reject, ridicule, or despise us.
3. We fear people because they can attack, oppress, or threaten us. These three reasons have one thing in common: they see people as “bigger” (that is, more powerful and significant) than God, and, out of the fear that creates in us, we give other people the power and right to tell us what to feel, think, and do.
Tags: fear self-esteem people god codependency
It is possible that our present-day discussion about needs might be framed more by secular psychological theories than by Scripture. If this is so, we should be careful about saying, "Jesus meets all our needs." At first, this has a plausible biblical ring to it. Christ _is_a friend; God _is_ a loving Father; Christians _do_ experience a sense of meaningfulness and confidence in knowing God's love. It makes Christ the answer to our problems. Yet if our use of the term "needs" is ambiguous, and its range of meaning extends all the way to selfish desires, then there will be some situations where we should say that Jesus does not intend to meet our needs, but that he intends to change our needs.
Edward T. WelchTags: scripture jesus selfishness needs secular-psychology
Jesus did not die to increase our self-esteem. Rather, Jesus died to bring glory to the Father by redeeming people from the curse of sin.
Edward T. WelchTags: christianity sanctification fear-of-man
People are most similar to God when he is the object of their affection. People should delight in God, as he does in himself.
Edward T. WelchSanctification is like a clumsy, slow walk rather than a light switch that we turn from off to on.
Edward T. WelchSanctification is more about the direction than the distance we have traveled.
Edward T. WelchTags: sanctification
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