Test 1 Flashcards
four steps in having biblical interpersonal relationsips
Understanding God
understanding myself
understanding others
Living harmoniously with both God and man
How to understand God (3)
Creation, conscience, and image of God
A group of people who are interconnected or mutually interrelated with one another during their lifetime
Definition of Interpersonal Relationships
Reciprocating love for Him and others (3)
God declares His love
God’s requirements of man
God is the basis for our love for others
A body that is a temple (4)
Amazingly created
Prescribed before birth
The ‘unchangeables’ of ourselves
Accept all that God has designed
Reference for a body that is a temple
I Corinthians 6:19,20
Reference for prescribed before birth
Ps. 139: 16
Reference for amazingly created
Ps. 139:14
Signs of rejecting God’s design (9)
Excessive focus on externals inability to trust God difficulty in loving others self-criticism wishful comparison to others extravagance wrong priorities in life excessive shyness attitudes of superiority
How do you accept the way God made you (5)
be thankful make changes, if possible acknowledge God's marks of ownership beliieve that God can and will use you commit yourself to develop Christ-like character
Three elements in God’s design
Natural talents
personality
spiritual gifts
Worldly philosophy for design (2)
deterministic and developmental model
Deterministic model
external forces causes personality/outcome
Developmental model
you are what you make yourself; free to be whoever you want to be
Following God’s design (2)
Outward beauty is not related to inward happiness
Seek to please God rather than seek personal happiness
A temple made of flesh (3)
there are limitations of the flesh
there is a battle between the flesh and the Spirit
there must be a yielding to the Spirit
there can be victory
God’s directive (4)
to be holy
to be conformed to the image of Jesus Christ
to be a witness
to be spiritually mature
Reference for being holy
1 Peter 1:16
Reference for being conformed to the image of Jesus Christ
Romans 8:29
Reference for being a witness
Acts 1:8; 2 Cor 5:20
Reference for being spiritually mature
Colossians 1:28 2 Timothy 3:17