Restoring Your Soul (Part 1) Emotional health and spiritual maturity cannot be separated. It is impossible to be spiritually mature while remaining emotionally immature. – Peter Scazzero 2 Chronicles 7:14 ESV Emotions Aren’t Evil Genesis 1:27 ESV 3 John 1:2 NASB 3 John 1:2 NIV Is your soul getting along well? (Adapted from "Emotionally Healthy Spirituality" by Peter Scazzero.) 1. People use religious activities to avoid facing their deeper struggles, staying busy to evade their true feelings. 2. Emotions like anger, sadness, and fear are disregarded, leading to the devaluation of a vital part of our human nature created in God's image. 3. They relinquish joys, mistakenly believing that misery equates to God's favor. 4. Past experiences' impact on the present is denied, hindering spiritual progress. 5. Life is segmented into "sacred" and "secular," limiting God's presence to religious contexts. 6. Service for God takes precedence over being with God, risking contamination by ego and misguided ideals of success. 7. Conflict is spiritualized away instead of being addressed, causing issues to worsen over time. 8. Hiding brokenness, weakness, and failure is favored over embracing vulnerability and dependence on God. 9. A frenzied existence neglects self-care and individual needs. 10. They judge others' spiritual journeys based on their own progress, fostering division rather than unity. Levels of Emotional Maturity 1. Emotional Infant 2. Emotional Child 3. Emotional Adolescent 4. Emotional Adult Matthew 16:26 NLT