Sermon Title: Slow Down, you move too fast
Scripture: Genesis 1, 2, 3
Areas we may feel overloaded:
Activity overload
Change overload
Choice overload
Commitment overload
Debt overload
Expectation overload
Information overload
Entertainment overload
Noise overload
Fatigue overload
“Depression began its ascent when the disciplinary model for behaviors, the rules of authority and observance of taboos that gave social classes as well as both sexes a specific destiny, broke against norms that invited us to undertake personal initiative by enjoining us to be ourselves. … The depressed individual is unable to measure up; he is tired of having to become himself.” “The Burnout Society” - Byung-Chul Han
So where do we begin? We need to recapture a biblical theology of limits.
Your limitations:
Physical
Intellectual
Giftedness
Emotional
Family
Season of life
“Emotionally healthy people understand the limits God has given them. They graciously receive the 1, 2, 7 or 10 talents God has distributed. As a result they are not frenzied or covetous trying to live a life that God never intended. They are marked by contentment and joy. Emotionally healthy churches also embrace their limits with the same joy and contement; not attempting to be like another church. They have a confident sense of God’s good hand on their church for such a time as this.” The Emotionally Healthy Church” - Pete Scazzero
3 exercises for consideration:
Sabbath
Simplify
Slow Down
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