Feel free to answer any or all of the following questions or start your own line of discussion based on something from the intro or chapter 1
1. Read Psalm 69 – If David visited your church or small group and presented Psalm 69 as his testimony, would you take it as a sign of spiritual weakness or spiritual strength, immaturity or maturity? Explain.
2. How would react if David opened up in this way in a small group you were in? How would you feel if David were you a “leader” in your church, sharing this with your congregation at a Sunday worship service?
3. What about your life experiences, family history, or bad religious teaching may have caused you to deny or repress your feelings rather than bringing them to God as David did?
4. Consider the broad range of emotions Jesus experienced (Luke 19:41; Luke 10:21; Mark 14:34; Luke 7:13; Mark 3:5; Mark 6:6; Luke 7:9; Mark 3:5; Luke 12:50). What's that like to see Jesus in that light?
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For me, reading through the gosples through the lens of the people being emotional beings has been very transformation in my view of God and myself.
It seems all too easy to make these men and women superhero who don't feel anything, but just always choice the right thing.
I think it is more livable to consider the emotions that they expressed (or could have had in those situations).
I am especially grateful for the records of the various emotions Jesus expressed.
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