INSIDE OUT, MAN IS A MESS
Today I watched the movie, "Inside Out," with the Gould children. The movie is a reminder of how psychology (the valid part of the study of the human psyche) and salvation connect.
Psychology is able (in a limited and errant way) to recognize and categorize some of the inner troubles of human beings and their interaction with one another. However, even when psychology correctly states certain observations about the human condition, it offers totally flawed answers to the problems of life.
There is real potential in having an "Inside Out Youth Focus Weekend." Sadly, the movie addresses the problem of inner youth conflicts, in a better way than most churches deal with it, whether with youth or adults.
One of the problems of today is that society trusts the words of HUMANISTIC Psychology, and Secularist programs and they have totally discarded the Holy Bible and the miraculous work of the Holy Spirit in solving the conflicts that accost all of us.
It is necessary to understand several things if a program like this is held.
* Biblical Anthropology (the origin, nature, condition and potential of human beings).
* Basic principles of Psychology (the study of the human mind, emotions, desires, and human behavior).
* The basic errors of Humanistic Psychology, Anthropology and Sociology.
* The Biblical solution to human flaws and failures and relational fissures.
* The Christian view of sin, God and salvation.
I find that movies, like I/O, are in touch with the mind, values and emotions of society, of all ages. It is not that people don't care about the answers and principles of the Holy Bible, as much as the fact that they are not given the message of the Holy Bible, and therefore don't know God's view and God solution to the human condition. This leaves them looking for deliverance in errant psychology and sociology
Christian must not be ashamed of God, His word, His Son, His salvation or His Holy Spirit, since this is where we find the answer to man's problems.
