Lesson 20 | Our emotional development

Note: Please allow yourself one hour to watch and reflect on this lesson.

Summary of key points

1. We begin to feel many emotions before we have the ability to understand, accept, express, and practice self control over them.
2. Our emotions drive our outlook on life, our memories, our self-image, and our relationships with God and with people.
3. Emotions impact our physical, emotional and spiritual well-being. They affect how much we are willing to put our trust in God.
4. The world teaches us to cope with stressful emotions in ungodly ways. 
5. Most people never receive proper emotional nurturing.
6. As believers, we need to ask the Holy Spirit to guide our emotional lives so that we do not sin.
7. God is the God of all comfort and He will guide us through our emotions.

Group reflection questions

1. What are some of your personal takeaways from this study and testimony?
2. What are some worldly beliefs about emotions?
3. What have you believed about emotions in general?
4. Who or where did you learn those beliefs from?
5. If we look at the examples of ideal emotional nurturing from young, what might be missing from your own upbringing?

Transcript

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