WHAT IS A SOUL: RECAP
BEFORE YOU WATCH:
What have you found to be the most helpful thing you’ve discovered about your soul so far?
Which of the 4 areas of your soul do you feel God might be asking you to pay attention to? (heart, mind, body, relationship)
AFTER YOU’VE WATCHED:
How would you describe what a soul is to someone else who has not seen these videos?
How does this change the way you think about following Jesus?
DOCUMENTS FOR DOWNLOAD:
RECAP: WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT OUR SOULS
· The Old Testament says that when flesh and spirit are combined, God calls it a soul. So, our souls are the mysterious combination of flesh and spirit.
· Murder is described as slaying a soul.
· A soul, is the totality of a person, heart, spirit, mind, and body.
· From Jesus we learn that while at our death there may be a separation of some kind, ultimately God’s intention is for our bodies to be reunited with the rest of our soul.
· Our souls are a resource that can be depleted and refreshed. Our souls find what they need to be refreshed in Jesus.
· Denying something about ourselves is associated with gaining or losing our soul. Losing our soul is tied to chasing after the world.
· Heart, soul, and mind are a way of referring to the totality of a person. Our soul is part of how we love God.
· Our soul includes our emotions such as sorrow.
· You already have a soul, but somehow you can gain or possess more of it through endurance.
· We don’t have souls! We are souls!
· We are holistic embodied spiritual beings called souls.
LET’S RECAP DALLAS WILLARDS MODEL OF OUR SOUL
· HEART: We are primarily motivated by what our hearts love
· MIND: We can shape our hearts affections by what we focus our minds on
· BODY: What we do with our bodies affects our hearts and minds
· BODY: Our Bodies can give us clues to what’s going on that we might be ignoring through tension, fear, worry, and pain.
· SOCIAL: Our souls are shaped by our past, present, and future relationships
