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032 Modern Discipleship with Stone Age Minds (with Justin Barrett)

Attaching to God: Neuroscience-informed Spiritual Formation

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The Self Control Muscle

When we exercise our self-control muscle too much, it can become weak and flabby. This is especially true in urban settings where there are so many temptations to spend your money. If you're overly permissive as a parent, your kids never learn self-control; if you're sort of too controlling, they never get a chance to exercise their self-control. So that's kind of the middle path that we've got to find as parents, as educators, as pastors, as community leaders.

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