The idea that jesus was fully god AND fully human, is quite a thorny theological one… but let’s get real for a moment. When it comes to seeing Jesus as fully human, do we really relate to him on that, with regards to our emotions? When we see him have feelings (he shows the full range on the pages of the gospels), do we believe that they’re human… like, the same as the feelings that we have? Or do we just see them as godly versions of those? The material we’re working through in this series helps us look at the reasons we might not have included emotional health - and what it takes to be emotionally healthy - in our frameworks for good spirituality and discipleship.
Anger gets a special focus in this talk. The great emotional mascarader. This negative feeling we’re probably most familiar with is actually described as a secondary emotion by experts because it’s our comfort with it that makes it a lot easier to feel than whatever it is we’re feeling underneath. So let’s understand our anger. Let’s understand what it is and isn’t about. This road is often messy and painful, but it’s the only one that leads to health.