Sermon slides from Sunday's sermon based on Romans 12:1-3 and applied to getting over a painful past based on Church Ingram's series with personal insights and applications from "Emotionally Healthy Spirituality" and "Great Commandment Principle."

4. Think See Feel Act Be

6. Impact of Warped Self Image
•Insecurity, inferiority
•Performance orientation or withdraw
•Denial, compensation, or addictive
behavior
•Unfulfilled longings for significance
and unconditional acceptance

7. Impact of Rejection
Emotionally …
Feelings of unworthiness/inferiority
Fear of expressing feelings
Depression (anger turned inward)
Emotional insulation

8. Impact of Rejection
Emotionally …
Perfectionist
Worries, doubts, fears
Self-condemnation/hatred
Inability to experience/express love

9. Impact of Rejection
Behaviorally/Relationally …
Driven & compulsive
Withdraw
Reject others in the same way

10. Think See Feel Act Be

11. Romans 12:1-3
1 Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view
of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as
living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to
God--this is your spiritual act of
worship.

12. Romans 12:1-3
2 Do not conform any longer to the
pattern of this world, but be
transformed by the renewing of your
mind. Then you will be able to test and
approve what God's will is--his good,
pleasing and perfect will.

13. Romans 12:1-3
“For through the grace given to me I say
to everyone among you not to think
more highly of himself than he ought
to think; but to think so as to have
sound judgment, as God has allotted
to each a measure of faith.”

14. [Un]Stuck…
Stop “conforming” to the lies!
Listen to your “self talk” (thinking)
Look for patterns in your feelings
Take note of unhealthy/destructive
ways of acting

15. [Un]Stuck
Be “transformed” by the truth!
Listen to God’s truth -- Scripture
Memorize and meditate on
Notice destructive ways of acting

16. [Un]Stuck
Test and prove God’s good will!
Practice obedience in action
Experience God’s truth in relationship
Develop the character of Jesus Christ
(aka “fruit of the Spirit”)

17. Getting Over Painful Past
The Lie The Truth
“Works” “Grace”
“Fake” “Real”
“Please
People”
“Please God”

18. Getting Over Past Pain
When and how have you experienced
pain in your life? Name it and pray it!
What lie have you been believing?
What behavioral and emotional
impact has this had on you and your
relationships?

19. Getting Over Past Pain
What Scripture truth counters the lie?
How so?
What specific steps of faith /
obedience would help you experience
Christ’s unconditional love and
acceptance?

20. Getting Over Past Pain
Study this topic: Scripture and Christian
resources
Talk with God about your struggles
Consider recovery group and Christian
counseling
Share deeply in community with other
believers