Sunday, August 30, 2009

emotions= wimp?

Looking back at college I realize that a lot of the people or guys around me were very emotionally unstable. Too be honest I didn't know how to deal with it. Though this is not unrelated to spiritual health, the emotional health of believers today is I think often neglected. Especially in my Christian circle, to be a guy and be emotional at the same time is often frowned upon. The implications of which can be quite damaging in the long run.

Yet I think about Jesus and I wonder, are we to imitate him in his emotional life? Surely he displayed the full spectrum of emotions? Was that just his personality? Should we not be more like him? Is it therefore wrong to be emotionless? I honestly don't know. I dont consider myself to be an especially emotional person, in fact at times I probably have a bias against emotions and feelings, but considering the life of Jesus I wonder if I should "feel" more.

I believe that there is truth to the idea that Christians today are good at engaging the mind and at best the surface of the heart, but theres something below that that probably never gets touched. We simply don't know how.

Book I'd like to highly recommend. "The Emotionally Healthy Church" By Peter Scazzero.