- Whether labeled self-esteem or self worth, the feeling of significance is crucial to man's emotional, spiritual and social stability and is the driving element within the human spirit.
- In some cases, God's light may have revealed our pain and wall of defenses, but it may not yet have penetrated to our deepest thoughts and beliefs about ourselves.
- The Lord desires truth and honesty at the deepest level and wants us to experience His love, forgiveness and power in all areas of our lives.
Questions that we will discuss this week at Tuesday at 7am and Friday at 6:30am include:
- What does the term significance mean to you, how would you define it?
- On a scale of 0-10, with 10 being a completely healthy sense of self worth, where would you land?
- When do you feel best about yourself (situations, relationships, etc), when do you feel worst?
- Whose opinion do you value the most?
- Do you feel like you are honest with God? Do you feel like he wants you to be honest with him? How do you convey your feelings to him?
- What do you think about the contrasting formulas - The World's Equation versus God's equation, why is it so difficult to view ourselves apart from our performance and what other's think about us?
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WEEK 1 Summary: Our definition of significance seemed to change for all of us as grew in our commitments to Christ. It was shared that significance, meaning, purpose and self-worth are all similar concepts. We value the opinions of our spouses, co-workers, parents (Father's especially) and our children. The impact of the devil's formula - Significance = Self Worth + Other Peoples Opinions - was often determined by how we were raised, what environment shaped us and what was valued. The situations and relationships in which we feel best about are the ones where we can serve others, make a relational impact and actually experience God at Work thru us. God wants us to be honest with him and with ourselves as we dive into each of the areas of vulnerability that we have as men seeking after his own heart.
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