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Consider Self Window
1. Did you consider the self window concept? Share instances in your own experience where this has been true.
2. Are you an "Open Window" to God? Going back to the diagram, how do you and God relate? Are you A. Good friends? B. Strangers? C. Intimate?
3. How does God's knowledge of your "dark" area affect your approach to Him?
4. Consider Jacob in the light of the above, particularly the occasion when he wrestled with God.1 What is the importance of knowing someone's name?
5. Consider those occasions in the Early Church when the followers of Jesus shared their possessions.2 What lessons can be learned from these stories concerning one's openness to God?
6. For those who consider themselves close friends, sit down in pairs, and write down some of the things in your "free" box, the "hidden" one for yourself, and something from your neighbor's "blind" box. When finished, exchange papers and discuss your answers together. (Be very careful of one another's feelings!)
Some other interesting insights into what happens when people meet together have been brought out by Dr. Eric Berne in his book "Games People Play" and by a host of his followers in the study of transactional analysis. While it tends on the one hand to be a cold search of the human soul, on the other hand it can enable us to see more clearly what happens to one person when addressing another.
1 Genesis 32:22-32 2 Acts 4:32 to 5:11
"Consider the Self Window."
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