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I am trying to understand the psychology behind some of the reasons that stop us doing things for God. One interesting suggestion is that we are protecting God from bad outcomes. So the theory goes in trying to protect God, this stops us praying for the ill, just in case God does not answer the […]
In every organisation there is the inevitable encroachment of mediocrity and the appeal of compromise. I hear very often. ‘can we make it easy for Christians to be in mission?’ Of course you can, but if you do they will not have the opportunity of being rejected which was the experience of the 72 disciples […]
We are a society that wants certainty, we want guaranteed results and this attitude has infected the church where mission is concerned. Jesus said in the sending the 72 disciples out on mission that there were two guarantees. They would meet people of peace and they would be rejected, that was the guarantee. If the […]
Clinical Psychologist Suzanne Kobasa Phd aimed to increase hardiness in stressed individuals and she came up with three key elements she had seen in the hardy. 1. By focusing – on the physical signs of stress and become aware when they are starting 2. Reconstructing stress situations – The hardy think about recent stress situations […]
We tend to attribute the lack of missional activity in the church to people’s apathy. We tend to ignore the situation and just look at the behaviour. We then draw inaccurate inferences. We look at an apathetic disposition as the reason for the behaviour. But what if the people are scared because of a previous […]
So often one of the phrases used as to why we don’t invite is that it would be horribly embarrassing. I remember recently looking at some old pictures of me in my teenage years. I was wearing flares and platform shoes. I can’t imagine me wearing them today it would be horribly embarrassing, not then […]
A growing body of research has revealed that labeling an emotion, or putting one’s feelings into words, can help to down regulate that affect, as occurs with intentional forms of emotion regulation, such as reappraisal and distraction. Katharina Kircanski (2012), Matthew D. Lieberman, and Michelle G. Craske translated this basic research to a real-world example, in which spider-fearful […]
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