Christian evangelism from a systemic relational therapist

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

https://amzn.to/3g0w5s0

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?"

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