I Am Restored 

Part 1: Facing my own chaos

==Chaos = sin==

Chapter 1:

What makes a person healthy? What is the true meaning of being whole and complete as a human being?

1. How someone expresses their faith or their theology
2. It’s a product of our physical conditioning and disciple
3. It’s how closely we’ve achieved our goals and lived in our purpose

The Christian response to pain

1. Minimize it
2. Over spiritualize it
3. Memorialize it

Chaos Origins: Where does it come from?

1. Consequences of our own chaotic decisions
2. The broken nature of the world we live in
3. The sin of others

Controlling the narrative caused by chaos

• Allowing chaos to control us creates a dangerous pattern of self-destruction
• Specialists are a good thing
• We all need “Nathan & Johnathon” friendships
• Shame is a liar

Chapter 2

Confronting our Past

• “We can face our past willingly, or our lives force us to face.”
• Wounds of father & family
• Cliche topics
• “Post-traumatic slave syndrome”
• Addressing the Chaos

Shifting our perspective

• What we romanticize will consume us
• Finding new outlets to prove ourselves

Flipping the script

• King vs. Priest
• God’s script is simply to love him completely
• Fear makes us shrink back to a false version of ourselves

Chapter 3:

Racial Toxicity

• Jemar Tisby The Color of Compromise
• Since the institution of American churches, Christians haven’t lived up to the call of Christ
• Missional Life
• Who’s the backbone of the Black Church?
    * Grandma

More “solid” churches

• More solid = code for white conservative Christian spaces
• Reformed theology or Calvinism
• The idea that God is above all things and we are lost without him
• Self Righteousness feeds insecurity

Christian addiction to religion & power dynamics

• Many Christians are content with power dynamics as they are
• Double standards are real
• Being devoted to God isn’t about keeping rules & regulations
• Christianity must listen to the voices from the marginalized