Untangle Your Emotions by Jennie Allen
Week 9: Chapter 8 — The Emotions of Jesus
Read Chapter 8 of Untangle Your Emotions. Key passages: John 11:35; Matthew 26:36–39; Mark 10:21; Luke 10:21; John 2:13–17.
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Jesus is not just our Savior from sin — He is our model for emotional wholeness, and this chapter is one of the richest in the book for understanding what healthy emotion actually looks like.
Discussion Questions
8 questions1.Jennie walks through multiple scenes of Jesus experiencing emotion — joy, grief, anger, compassion, anguish. Which of these depictions of Jesus surprised you most, or felt most unfamiliar compared to how you typically picture Him?
2.She makes the point that Jesus experienced emotions fully without sin — He is the proof that emotion itself is not the problem. How does meditating on the emotional life of Christ change how you view your own emotions? Does it give you permission, or does it raise the bar in a way that feels discouraging?
3.Jennie highlights the scene in John 11 where Jesus weeps at the tomb of Lazarus — even though He is about to raise Lazarus from the dead. He does not skip the grief in order to get to the miracle. What does that teach us about how God relates to our suffering and loss?
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