Fr. Michael Sorial

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Incarnational Living A Strategy for Discipleship
Part 3 Look Beneath the Surface and Break the
Power of the Past

• Fr. Michael Sorial
• St. Mary St. Antonios Church
• Queens, NY

Taken from The Emotionally Healthy Church
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Part 3 Principles 1 2

• Principle 1 Look Beneath the Surface

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Looking Everywhere But Inside

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Beneath the Surface of the Iceberg

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Painful Honesty
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Develop an Awareness of What I Am Feeling Doing

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Most Christian are Self-Conscious but NOT
Self-Aware
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Asking the Why? or Whats Going On? Question
Getting Rid of the Glittering Image
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Part 3 Principles 1 2

• Principle 1 Look Beneath the Surface
• Principle 2 Break the Power of the Past

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Identifying How Your Family Shaped YouGoing
Back to Go Forward
Name meaning fruitful in land of suffering
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Discerning the Major Influences in Your Life

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Being Renewed Through the Church

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Remember How Many People Are at the Table
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3 Practical Applications

1. Recognize the Iceberg in You from Your Family
2. Discern the Good God Intends in, through and, in
   spite of, Your Family and Past
3. Make the Decision to do the Hard Work of
   Discipleship

You intended (PLANNED) to harm me, but God
intended (PLANNED) it for good to accomplish what
is now being done, the saving of many lives.
Genesis 5020
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Questions

1. When you look beneath the surface of your
   iceberg, what do you see that makes you mad? sad?
   anxious? glad?
2. Why do you do what you do? What is the reason
   why you started serving? Is it still the same
   reason that leads you to serve today? If not,
   are you satisfied with the reason for which you
   serve today? If not, what do you believe needs to
   happen to allow you to serve for the right
   reasons?
3. What positive / negative influence spiritually
   (emotionally, etc.) did your family have on you
   growing up?