{"id":1282,"date":"2017-01-23T17:34:19","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T17:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/immanuelpracticum.com\/book\/?p=1282"},"modified":"2017-01-23T17:37:07","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T17:37:07","slug":"call-christian-maturity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/immanuelpracticum.com\/book\/call-christian-maturity\/","title":{"rendered":"A Call To Christian Maturity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/immanuelpracticum.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Christian-Maturity.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1283\" src=\"https:\/\/immanuelpracticum.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Christian-Maturity.jpg\" alt=\"Christian Maturity\" width=\"279\" height=\"175\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>A Call To Christian Maturity<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>How would you define Christian maturity? \u00a0Is it how long you have been a believer? \u00a0Is it how well you know the Bible? \u00a0Is it your ministry role? \u00a0Hmmm&#8230;I don&#8217;t think so.<\/p>\n<p>There is something so different about Immanuel Prayer (OK, so there are a ton of things different about Immanuel Prayer!).\u00a0 What I am thinking about today is how Immanuel Prayer is a call for believers to take responsibility for their own part in the drama of life.<\/p>\n<p>Too often we turn to blaming others and disconnecting relationally when in reality much of what we are experiencing has very little to do with the other person.\u00a0 Instead, it is some old toxic emotional content implicitly triggering forward and making it feel like the other person is 100% responsible.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Karl Lehman\u2019s book <em>Outsmarting Yourself <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/outsmartingyourself.org\/\"><em>http:\/\/outsmartingyourself.org\/<\/em><\/a> lays out a framework for why we do what we do and then gives practical steps for doing something about it.\u00a0 Imagine that!\u00a0 When I find myself responding like a child in a life situation, or over-reacting to that seemingly benign event, there is a pretty good chance that I have felt that way before.\u00a0 Dr Karl calls it, \u201cCatching your past invading your present and what to do about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As we get healthier emotionally, we can begin to notice when we are triggered and non-relational.\u00a0 Then we can take responsibility for ourselves and ask the Lord for help in getting our relational circuits back on. \u00a0As we do this, we can stay in the moment, remain connected to the people around us (even the perceived source of the trigger), and not allow the triggering to create a break in our relationships.\u00a0 Ideally, we take it another step and go in for our own weekly Immanuel session with a coach and let Jesus take a look at the triggering with you so that we can move from \u2018coping\u2019 to healing.\u00a0 It is in the memory work with Jesus that the healing of these emotional wounds is permanently resolved.\u00a0 As this process continues, I find myself not responding to situations like I have my whole life. \u00a0What freedom!<\/p>\n<p>Dr Karl lists four ways to get our relational circuits back on:<\/p>\n<p>Attunement<\/p>\n<p>Deliberate Appreciation<\/p>\n<p>Calming<\/p>\n<p>Humor (Non-sarcastic)<\/p>\n<p>I wrote about Attunement here:<a href=\"https:\/\/immanuelpracticum.com\/book\/attunement-power\/\" target=\"_blank\"> https:\/\/immanuelpracticum.com\/book\/attunement-power\/<\/a>. \u00a0We\u2019ll talk about the others in future blogs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Call To Christian Maturity How would you define Christian maturity? \u00a0Is it how long you have been a believer? \u00a0Is it how well you know the Bible? \u00a0Is it your ministry role? \u00a0Hmmm&#8230;I don&#8217;t think so. 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