Based on the requests of many of our Going Deeper Together 1.0 participants, the 2.0 will build on the ERI model of maturity and provide participants a unique opportunity to go deeper into the process of looking, living, loving and sounding more like our Lord Jesus Christ. As we focus on scripture and church history, as well as utilize some of the insights of psychological research and interpersonal neurobiology (brain science) . . . we will continue to not just learn more about our God-given emotions, but how our feeling and thinking can work together to help us make increasingly healthier, life-giving and Christ-honoring choices. We’ll learn very practical ways to “take every thought captive” and how to “set our minds on things above” and keep them there . . . practical ways to manage the inner cacophony of the jumping monkeys running wild, and stay focused . . . to be still . . . to wait and listen . . . and how to go beyond doing stuff more FOR God and learning more ABOUT God, to the value of simply spending more time WITH God. We’ll also discuss and practice different kinds of prayer, experience the power of silence and solitude, how to discern the “whispers” of our Abba, and the unique perspective of contemplative spirituality. We’ll actually apply Jeremiah 6:16 where the Lord instructs us to: “Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. …”
“1.0 served as a significant introduction and foundation for understanding the connectedness between emotional and spiritual health, and the 2.0 took it to a whole new level . . . greater depth, breath and opportunities to practice what we learned." “Both the 1.0 and 2.0 intensives impressed on me how integrated our God-given abilities to think, feel and choose are and the value and absolute necessity of growing up and becoming mature in ALL aspects of the person God made me to be and become.”
