2022.10.10: bk.relig/christian/
Christian evangelism from a systemic relational therapist:
Theressa McMorris 2022.7
Kingdom Blueprint: Cultivating an Intimate Relationship with God
5-star/best suited to Christians
but interesting systemic relational therapist:
. McMorris is a systemic relational therapist,
as marriages and families are systems;
you and our god are a system, a relationship.
. the book seems to promise a born-again experience
when it intends to show us
"how to engage in God's presence,
and be forever changed."
. this is also a book about Christian evangelism;
so if you don't believe Jesus is a form of the god,
you're getting quite a bit of off-topic material.
. McMorris quotes Jesus [Matthew 7:21]
to describe how a relationship with our god
involves more than just religious rituals.
. in that quote Jesus was saying
you don't earn the god's love by
breaking natural law in the name of helping,
you need to follow the god's law.
Jesus also said following the law entails
not just your actions but your thoughts.
. on p25, most psychological troubles are due to
relationships where expectations were not met.
. most of our psychic pain actually comes from
our relationship with our emotion maker
rather than the state of the world
that our emotions are complaining about.
. McMorris seems to be on the same line of thought
when she says the cure to all the pain
is restoration of our relationship with the god.
. on p84 we learn from Isaiah that
actually being in the presence of our perfect god,
makes us feel very ashamed of having an unclean mind.
. p86 might have a missing word:
"Practicing the presence of God
is the choice to orient our entire heart, mind, and soul
into the reality [of] God's presence."
. to be born-again
is to know that the god is watching,
and that one should follow every thought with:
"what would perfection think of that?"
the Sense of Being Stared At: And Other Unexplained Powers of Human Minds [ad]
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