We Don't Like to Feel Things

As a culture, we do not like to feel things. Instead of feeling negative emotions like sadness from rejection, we slap on crazy and excessive affirmation on top of it. The church goes the other extreme. We make people feel that if you are really holy, if you really love jesus, if you are satisfied by the holy ghost, then you will not experience negative emotions or difficult emotions such as guilt. Both extremes are incredibly unhelpful because those negative emotions at your feeling, they do not go away. They just get buried alive. So number one, we have to feel it.