Ls.1-Study Questions

Mind reading is a survival technique that you learned to cope with difficult situations. For example: When you grow up in a family situation where there are no clear communications about expectations, or how to do things, and there is ready punishment when you don’t do things as they expected, but never explained. You were constantly trying to figure out how to please them so you wouldn’t receive punishment but that doesn’t mean you were being to yourself.

Yes, but knowing about Him and His ways is not the same thing as  Him. As you know Him, He displays His ways and He teaches and reveals Himself.

That is the way of . The slave gives service, subserviently, with a victim mindset or a hidden desire for gain. This eventually becomes a need to rule over and dominate, as they feel ruled over and are dominated. 

Sonship and friendship are different from that of a slave. Theirs is the pathway of knowing, sharing, giving joy, and honor. Rules-oriented relationships cannot be founded in, or on, love or genuine respect. Fear is usually the prompter. Rules can lead to a feeling of obligation and isolation, not relationships. 

Slavery is about independence and survivalism- “So in my situation, it was more about that I could know about God but I didn’t have the trust, because of human betrayals, to believe that God would be there for me without so many rules and regulations and fear of punishment. I didn’t understand discipline. I understood . I didn’t know that I had them meshed together.