Emotions

“Out of 255 verses referencing emotion, one fifth (20%) are verses where Jesus teaches someone about how they ought to feel. Half of those references are about fear and/or anxiety.” - Don Johnson

“I set out to read through the Gospels, noting down every mention of emotion that I could find. I came up with 255 verses…. The next step was to classify or arrange the references. I could do this manually, verse-by-verse in an Excel spreadsheet, but I thought ‘this is a perfect job for AI.’ And so it was.” - Don Johnson

“I’d argue that loving God with our hearts just as much as our minds is a biblical principle that many churches need to be reminded of. However, I’d also contend that too many churches ride the wave of emotionalism, believing that the outward expression of these ‘worship experiences’ is God’s primary concern. It’s not.” - Richard Bargas

“We’ve been warned not to let our feelings define our faith. And fair enough—emotions are fickle. They’re shaped by bad sleep, awkward conversations and existential dread at 2 a.m. … But in the process of keeping our feelings from running the show, many of us learned to shut them out entirely.” - Relevant

“Worship is not simply right thinking, which computers can do. Worship is right feeling about God. That’s really crucial, unless we begin to think that artificial intelligence can take the place of human beings in accomplishing the divine purpose in the universe.” - John Piper

When Contextualization Becomes Compromise - TGC

“In simplest terms, divine impassibility means that God does not suffer…. God cannot be acted upon from without, neither can His inner state change for better or for worse.” - Kevin DeYoung

“Some people suppose happiness is uniquely human, unrelated to God’s nature: as He gave us a body and hunger, which He doesn’t have, He gave us a capacity for happiness, which He also doesn’t have. I believe something radically different” - Randy Alcorn

“God wants us to understand our anger by speaking to our souls, by contemplating the anger in silence, and then by doing the next right thing. And this will demonstrate by our acts that we trust in Yahweh, and not in our own devises.” - TGC