I want to talk about how better reactions can lead to better relationships. That initial emotional response that we have. But also I want to unpack how our feelings are great indicators but should never be dictators how we act and react. You know our character is managed in how we act. But our character is often revealed in how we react.
And this is a biblical principle. Basically what we have stored up in our heart is what will eventually come out of our mouth. Yeah. So it is important that we tend well to what our previous reactions have revealed about things that need to be addressed in our heart. So Joel, I know you always have some great theology.
So I’m going to let you um give us some biblical wisdom about reactions and then I want to help you determine. There’s four reaction types and I want to help you determine what reaction type are you with different kinds of relationships in your life. So let’s start with the theology today. Yeah. So I think all of our reactions have to be rooted in some type of um framework.
There’s got to be something that motivates that reaction. Um and often when we don’t have the right source as the motivation of that reaction, then our reactions will end up in extremes, you know, and I know we’re going to talk about that here in a bit. Uh, but I want us to take us back to what God’s ideal is for our reactions and where they should actually be rooted.
Um, and we’re going to look at a passage of scripture, actually two passages of scriptures that um are quoting each other. And there’s some interesting Greek and Hebrew language stuff I’m going to do just, you know, surface level to uh to get excited a little bit about uh what the implication is for this. And it’s a verse we’ve actually already looked at in a previous episode.
