Emotional IQ or EQ is widely recognized today by researchers and is widely sought by business leaders. Even such retailers as Wall Mart and Target train their people to warmly greet customers when they arrive so they will want to return and shop there again. Although the term EQ was only recently invented the idea is as old as the first passages in the Bible. Over and over we learn from God's word that we humans have been created in the image of God and it is clear that the Bible shows our God to be very emotional.
As we read the various stories about the good, bad and ugly characters that fill the pages of scripture we cannot help but notice they are filled with emotions. Sometimes these emotions result in acts of kindness and caring but at other times the result is harmful to themselves and to others. These good emotions are called, "The fruit of the Holy Spirit."
It is obvious to me that the bad, ugly and damaging emotions of humans do not originate with God. They are contrary to God and contrary to God's will. They are what we call, fleshly or sinful in nature and God is holy and without sin. So, we can have some feelings that are right and holy and some that are wrong and unholy.
Most of my professional life I have worked to help people transform their unholy and unhealthy emotions into feelings that are pleasing to God and man. This was the focus of my 1975 doctoral dissertation and several books that came from that work. Here in Russia we are happily carrying the same call of God with great results in the lives of leaders and their flocks.
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