Live in Brokenness & Vulnerability

Today, a third quality in the kind of emotional wellbeing that always accompanies true spiritual maturity i.e., 3) Live in Brokenness and Vulnerability. In the spiritually and emotionally healthy person, there's a freedom from that natural defensiveness, from aversion to criticism, insecurity and hypersensitivity that most often accompanies our human, fallen condition.

We'll see that the Apostle Paul enjoyed that kind of inner liberty AND he also saw its absence in some of the young Christians he loved and served as Christianity was being established in the ancient world. Let's look at:
#1 – A Dead Mindset Facing a Weak Apostle
#2 – A New Rationale to Redirect Boasting
#3 – The Practice of Upside-down Boasting