Week 7, Day 1

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Week 7, Day 1

Inside Out

Inside Out is the story of Riley – a happy, hockey-loving, 11-year-old Midwestern girl – whose world turns upside down when she and her parents move to San Francisco.

As Riley is growing and maturing into a young woman, her emotions conflict with one another – joy, fear, anger, disgust, and sadness. All these are emotions she has already dealt with throughout her life, but in the stress of moving to a new home, her emotions get heightened.

Mental health is a big thing in our culture today. Mental health includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. Emotions are powerful. They can take us up or down like the waves of the ocean. When they are left in control, they will certainly sink us. Have you ever felt like you’re sinking because your emotions are out of whack?

“For the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love and self-discipline.”

2 Timothy 1:7

In Galatians chapter 5, God tells us that a life fully surrendered to His Spirit will produce the great benefit of self-control. We can’t win at emotional well-being or maturity by our own efforts. It will take God in our lives to build a bigger board with self-control.

Read Galatians 5

-What’s one area of your emotional maturity that you can focus on this week to grow in?

Week 7 Discussion Guide

It’s important that God’s Word continues after the message. At Celebrate, we find that you will talk over this week’s message long after our experience is over. That’s because God has lasting impact. The Sermon Discussion Guide is designed to help you continue the conversation all week.

Week 7, Day 6

The Church is not for perfect people. It’s for imperfect people who are working together to become fully mature in Jesus Christ. It’s the place where we rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep. So for Riley, joy and sadness come together to the emotional headquarters and join fear, anger, and disgust. Riley’s emotions keep maturing with her growing self-control. “Better a patient person than a warrior, one with self-control than one who takes a city.” Proverbs 16:32 Read Proverbs 16 As you grow a stronger emotional control center, authentic emotions will work together. Sadness and joy are blended into honest emotions. When our emotions work together, we grow in our emotional health and relational health. -What is one way you can mature through your emotions instead of running away from them?

Week 7, Day 5

Throughout the movie, we see the operations console that controls Riley. By the end of the movie, she is upgraded to a bigger emotional control center. Let’s go back to one of the verses we have meditated on this week. “For the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love and self-discipline.” 2 Timothy 1:7 Read Galatians 5 (Again) God tells us that a life fully surrendered to Him will produce the great benefit of self-control. We can’t win at emotional maturity by our own efforts; it takes God to help us build a bigger control center. -How are you doing in your life at becoming a safe place for your emotions to mature?