1 Defining Emotional Maturity
James O'Connell
Part of EHD—Emotionally Healthy Discipleship
May 5, 2022

Prayer Mobilization

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THE HALF MILLION MOBILIZATION resources website

We begin to usher in a new day in the USA/Canada Region in the Church of the Nazarene. We do this not in our own strength, but in the strength of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Do we believe God can change the trajectory of our declining churches?
Do we believe God will raise up leaders to start new churches?
Do we believe God has a place in our current culture for the Nazarene holiness message?

Of course, the answer is yes. Perhaps there has never been a better time in the USA/Canada Region for the work of God’s church to breakthrough. Let us join together in a time of prayer for renewal in our ministry and our churches. Let us pray for a resurgence in the Nazarene message of hope and holiness.

God does nothing but by prayer, and everything with it. —John Wesley

TODAY’s MESSAGE

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SERIES: Emotionally Healthy Discipleship
MESSAGE: 1 Defining Emotional Maturity

When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. —1 Corinthians 13:11

Nazarene Sanctification
1. Initial Sanctification: saved
2. Entire Sanctification: entirely committed
3. Final Sanctification: death
4. Progressive Sanctification: ongoing transformation

ONE. 4
Reveal Answer
of Discipleship

  1. We tolerate emotional maturity
  2. We emphasize being over doing
  3. We ignore the treasures of church history
  4. Wrong view of success

TWO. 10 Signs of Emotional
Reveal Answer
Spirituality

  1. We use God to run from God
  2. Ignore emotions
  3. We die to the wrong things
  4. Ignore the past’s impact on the presence
  5. Compartmentalize the secular and the sacred
    1. We do for God instead of being with God
  7. Spiritualize away conflict
  8. Cover over vulnerabilities, weaknesses, & failures
  9. Bite off more than we can chew
  10. Judge the spiritual journeys of others

THREE. 7
Reveal Answer
of EHD

  1. Be before we do
  2. Follow the crucified not Americanized Jesus
  3. Embrace God’s gift of limits
  4. Discover the treasures buried in grief and loss
  5. To make love the core measure of maturity
  6. To break the power of the past (family of origin issues)
  7. To lead out of weakness and vulnerability

Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish festivals. Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. Here a great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the lame, the paralyzed. [ ] One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to get well?”
“Sir,” the invalid replied, “I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me.”
Then Jesus said to him, “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.” —John 5.1-8