Seeking Wholeness Quiz 5

 

Test your knowledge of mental, emotional and spiritual health

Scriptures:

• Job 33:14-18
• Matthew 27: 15 - 19
• Ephesians 4:32
• Proverbs 25:21-22
• Romans 5:12
• 1 Peter 5:8-9
• Lamentations 3:37-38
• Deuteronomy 30:19
• Psalms 101:3
• Proverbs 18:21
• Philippians 4:8
• 1 Corinthians 15:33
• James 1:19

Introduction

Over the past 5 years, we have been studying The concept of wholeness.  

We defined wholeness as being  _______ healthy

• spiritually
• emotionally
• mentally

Free from oppression of

• Our past
• Bad thinking
• Strongholds
• The enemy

We’re talking about

• dealing with life’s current stresses
• being healed from experiences/wounds of the past

We’re promised eternal life

• We’re also supposed to have: joy, peace, patience, and self control here on earth

During this series, we’ve come up with a list of traits that define “Wholeness”.  

Traits of Wholeness

• Honesty
• Kindness
• Behavior not influenced by external approval / validation
• Living by values and principles
• Setting Boundaries
• Taking ownership of your responsibilities
• Living with purpose and passion
• Hope
• Confidence
• Not losing control of your emotions
• Free from addictions
• Addressing Conflict with truth and love
• Has the capacity to resolve conflict maturely
• you “fight fair“
• Not critical or Judgemental
• Not jealous of others
• Forgive those who have wronged you in the past
• Know that you’re worthy of receiving love
• Not afraid to fail
• Able to manage irrational fear, worry, and anxiety
• Selfless encounters with others
• Not manipulating others trying to control their actions
• You care about how others feel
• Patient
• Don’t give into peer/social pressure
• Can communicate without antagonizing others
• You can complain respectfully
• Recognize, manage, and take responsibility for your own thoughts and feelings
• Slow to anger
• Not easily triggered
• Ability to maturely express your wants, needs and desires
• Can listen without reacting
• Can respect others without having to change them
• Able to negotiate solutions and take other people's perspectives into consideration
• Give people room to make mistakes and not be perfect
• Love God
• Love your neighbor
• Pray and spend time with God
• You are led by the Spirit
• Have faith in your salvation through Jesus

Seeking Wholeness Quiz

Here is a quiz that will measure what you learned in the Seeking Wholeness series.  This quiz is intended to test your comprehension after viewing the entire series.  It is not intended to fully explain the lessons or to comprehensively teach the issues discussed.

Quiz Topics:

1. Dreams from God
2. Pilat’s Wife
3. Crucifying the Flesh
4. Forgiving Your Father and Mother
5. Forgiving Your Father and Mother
6. Suffering
7. Jacob and Esau
8. Anxiety
9. Worldly Emotional Baggage
10. Steps Towards Emotional Healing
11. Jesus and Therapy
12. Traits of Wholeness

1 Dreams from God

What are some reasons that God communicated with people in dreams in the Bible?

1. Warn them that they were in danger they could avoid
2. Warn them of negative events they couldn’t avoid
3. To reveal His will/plan
4. To get them to change their character/behavior
5. All of the above

Warn of danger you can avoid

• Matthew 2:13 - Herod wanted to kill Jesus
• Genesis 41:14-28 - Pharaoh 7 Fat Cows 7 Skinny Cows

Warn of negative events you cannot avoid

• Genesis 15:12-14 - told Abrahaam his descendents will be oppressed for 400 years

Reveal His Will

• Matthew 1:20 - Mary was pregnant from God and Joseph should marry her

Change Your Behavior

Job 33:14-18

14 “Indeed God speaks once, Or twice, yet no one notices it. 15 “In a dream, a vision of the night, When deep sleep falls on people, While they slumber in their beds, 16 Then He opens the ears of people, And horrifies them with warnings, 17 So that He may turn a person away from bad conduct, And keep a man from pride; 18 He keeps his soul back from the pit, And his life from perishing by the spear.

5. All of the above

From the lesson:  Unchained Disciples : Dreams From God

2 Pilat’s Wife

Before the crucifixion Pilat’s wife claimed she suffered greatly in a dream because of who?

1. God
2. The Chief Priest
3. Satan
4. Jesus
5. None of the above

Matthew 27: 15 - 19

15Now at the Passover Feast the governor was accustomed to release for the [f]people any one prisoner whom they wanted. 16And at that time they were holding a notorious prisoner called Barabbas. 17So when the people gathered together, Pilate said to them, “Whom do you want me to release for you: Barabbas, or Jesus who is called Christ?” 18For he knew that it was because of envy that [g]they had handed Him over.

19And while he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent him a message, saying, “See that you have nothing to do with that righteous Man; for [h]last night I suffered greatly in a dream because of Him.”

4. Jesus

From the lesson:  Unchained Disciples : Nightmares and Evil Dreams

3 Crucifying the Flesh

Crucifying the flesh means to:

1. Die to the mindset of the world system
2. Prioritize the kingdom over worldly goals and desires
3. Resist the temptation of the devil
4. Put God’s truth above all other truths
5. All of the above

5 All of the above

From the lesson: Unchained Disciples : Crucifying the Flesh

4 Forgiving Your Father and Mother

What is a reason you should forgive your father and mother for past wrongs:

1. The Bible tells us to forgive
2. God rewards you for forgiving
3. God forgave you of your sins
4. Unforgiveness affects your character
5. All of the above

The Bible tells us to forgive

Ephesians 4:32

32 Be kind to one another, compassionate, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you.

• The Bible tells us to forgive

“I can’t celebrate being forgiven and seek revenge at the same time”

God Rewards You for Forgiving

Proverbs 25:21-22

21 If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat; And if he is thirsty, give him water to drink; 22 For you will heap burning coals on his head, And the LORD will reward you.

Anger impacts Your current Emotional state through

• Emotional triggers
• Bitterness
• Not trusting anyone
• Inability to have intimacy

5. All of the above

From the lesson:  Unchained Disciples : Forgiving Your Father/Mother 3

5 Forgiving Your Father/Mother

Which statement is false about forgiving your mother or father for past wrongs?

1. You forgive based on your perception of what they did.
2. You can forgive them even if they have passed away
3. You may have to forgive them more than one time  
4. You don’t need to forgive them until they admit that what they did was wrong
5. All of the above are true

4.  You don’t need to forgive them until they admit they did something wrong

From the lesson:  Unchained Disciples : Forgiving Your Father/Mother 3

6 Suffering

Why does the Bible say that we experience trials in this world?

1. Because Adam and Eve sinned
2. Because of Satan
3. Because God caused it
4. Because of our bad choices
5. All of the above

Because of Adam and Eve

Romans 5:12

Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all mankind, because all sinned–

Because of Satan

1 Peter 5:8-9

 8Be of sober spirit, be on the alert. Your adversary, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. 9 So resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same experiences of suffering are being accomplished by your brothers and sisters who are in the world.

Because God Caused It

Lamentations 3:37-38

37 Who is there who speaks and it comes to pass, Unless the Lord has commanded it? 38 Is it not from the mouth of the Most High That both adversity and good proceed?

Because of our bad choices

Deuteronomy 30:19

“I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have placed before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. So choose life in order that you may live, you and your descendants,

5. All of the above

From the lesson:  Unchained Disciples : Why Does God Allow Suffering - Part 2

7 Jacob and Esau

The story of Jacob and Esau teaches us

1. God favors the firstborn
2. Issues that you had in your birth family can follow you to your adult family if you don’t heal
3. A man should be willing to work for 7 years to get a wife
4. Christian families don’t have drama
5. None of the above

2. Issues that you had in your birth family will follow you to your adult family if you don’t heal

From the lesson:  Unchained Disciples : Dysfunctional Families

8 Chronic Anxiety

Anxiety is a general word for emotional tension or stress

Acute anxiety is that pain in your stomach when you’re about to

• Take a test
• Give a speech
• Stressed at work
• Watch a scary movie

There is another type of anxieties within families where members of the family can become anxious because one of the members of the family is anxious.

Example: if mama's not happy… No one is happy

There is a level of stress that you obtain from the people you interact with regularly

This stress is called

1. Rumination
2. Transferred anxiety
3. Chronic anxiety
4. Dysfunctional anxiety
5. None of the above

3 chronic anxiety

Chronic anxiety can spread from one person to another

• Especially if you’re in a relationship with another person

The less emotionally healthy you are… The more anxiety you carry around

People might transfer their mood

from the lesson:

https://unchaineddisciples.blogspot.com/2023/12/dysfunctional-families-2.html

9 Worldly Emotional baggage

What are some negative emotional traits that Christians often bring in from the world?

1. Having your self-worth based on performance
2. Believing in marriage and gender roles shaped by family and culture instead of scripture
3. Resolving conflict poorly
4. Not knowing how to process their feelings
5. All of the above

Self worth  is Based on Performance

performance-based approval from family -> performing for Jesus

Example: getting praised only for good grades

Believe in marriage and gender roles we shaped by our families/culture versus scripture

“Happy wife …happy life”

Resolve conflict poorly

The basic way we resolve conflict resembles our family of origin not Christ’s ways

Example:

• Cursing/yelling
• Not addressing

Bible says

• Slow to anger
• Forgive

Not knowing how to accept and process our own feelings, needs and wants

We weren’t asked growing up

• What do you want?
• What do you need?
• What do you feel?

5 all of the above

From the lesson: https://unchaineddisciples.blogspot.com/2024/01/measuring-your-emotional-health.html

10 Steps Toward Emotional Healing

Which of the following steps are useful in your journey towards emotional healing

1. Be mindful what media you watch and the things you look at
2. Don’t speak negative
3. Focus on positive thoughts
4. Be mindful of the people you associate with
5. All of the above

Guard Your Gates

You don’t guard a city in the city you guard a city at the gate

- eyes

- Ear

- Mouth

Cut off the source of where the thought  is coming from

• That may mean not listening to certain people
• Or not listening to a certain type of music for a season

Guard Your Eyes

Psalms 101:3

I will set no worthless thing before my eyes; I hate the work of those who fall away; It shall not cling to me.

Don’t Speak Negative

Proverbs 18:21

Death and life are in the power of the tongue, And those who love it will eat its fruit.

Don’t say

• “I can’t remember things“
• “I can’t keep up“
• “ i’m so stupid“

If you argue for your limitations… You get to keep them

Focus on positive thoughts

Philippians 4:8

8 Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, think about these things.

You can’t keep a bird from landing on your head, but you can keep him from building a nest there

Instead of thinking self-centered thoughts… Think of others

Guard your associations

1 Corinthians 15:33

Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good morals.”

5  All of the above

From the lesson: https://unchaineddisciples.blogspot.com/2024/01/emotionally-healthy-christianity.html

11 Jesus and therapy

Christian psychologist Dr. Larry Crabb suggests that some issues are better addressed by therapy while others are better addressed by Christian communities.  

Which of these issues did he suggest were better handled by a therapist?

1. Insecurity
2. Indecisiveness
3. Clinical depression
4. Most personality disorders
5. All of the above would be best addressed by a therapist

3 Clinical depression

Core idea of Psychology

We have visible problems.  These problems are caused by unhealthy psychological processes that we don’t recognize.  These processes were caused by contact with unhealthy people and they developed into organized and firmly fixed patterns called psychological dynamics.

We are incorrectly processing ourselves and our lives because we’ve been damaged, and that damage needs to be fixed.

Examples:  a personal identity that has been damaged by.

• Abandonment
• Rejection
• Abuse

Issues Better Suited for Therapist

Empirically researchable concerns with predictable pattern in terms of

• Cause
• Nature
• Resolution

Concepts that are best understood by empirical research are best handled by a qualified professional

• High-level study of relevant research.
• A growing mastery of its conclusions and implications through formal training and ongoing practice
• Supervised experience in dealing with the presented concerns
• Credentials, granted by an appropriate regulatory body certifying, technical and procedural competence in handling a range of problems

Issues Better Addressed in Christian Communities

Their root lies in disconnection, and a flesh driven response to life’s disappointments

It is wrong to conceptualize these problems as evidenced of the damaged self caused by life experiences

Problems of the soul are more accurately defined as the effort to handle life challenges

From the lesson: 

Unchained Disciples : Jesus and Therapy - Seeking Wholeness Summary 21

12 Traits of Wholeness

Which of the following is not in our list of Traits of Wholeness?

1. Love God
2. Don’t be jealous of others
3. Don’t give into peer pressure
4. Taking ownership of your responsibilities
5. Don’t get angry

James 1:19

19[s]You know this, my beloved brothers and sisters. Now everyone must be quick to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

It can be appropriate to get angry, but we should not be easily triggered.

5 Don’t get angry

From the lesson:

Unchained Disciples : Traits of Wholeness

Instructor: Michael Leadon

Extra

Genesis 3:16-17

16 To the woman He said,

“I will greatly multiply

Your pain in childbirth,

In pain you shall deliver children;

Yet your desire will be for your husband,

And he shall rule over you.” 17 Then to Adam He said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat from it’;

Cursed is the ground because of you;

With hard labor you shall eat from it

All the days of your life.