Module 4: Your Identity

LESSON 11 – UNDERSTANDING THE IMPORTANCE OF IDENTITY
● The importance of our identity and how it has been impacted by a fallen world
● Seven common lies we believe that affect our identity.
● The ways shame can affect our day to day lives and relationships
● Why God the Father is the only one we should be listening to concerning the questions of, “Who we are, what we
are worth, and where is life found.”
● Key Bible Passages – James 3:5-10, Proverbs 23:7


LESSON 12 – UNDERSTANDING OUR NEW IDENTITY
● How to reshape our identity by immersing ourselves in the Biblical truths of who God says we are.
● Ways that other people have impacted our identity.
● What it means to “lay aside the old self” and “put on the new self.”
● The importance of “becoming like a child” and “dying to self” in embracing our new identity in Christ.
● Key Bible Passages – Matt 10:37-39, 16:24-25, Galatians 3:26-29, Romans 6:1-4, 1 Corinthians 10:1-2, 6:14-20,
Romans 6:5-11, Ephesians 4:20-24, Colossians 3:5-11, Luke 18:16-17, John 3:3-7, 1Peter 1:3-5, 1:22-23

Module 3: Your New Family

LESSON 7 – RECOVERING FROM AN UNHEALTHY BACKGROUND
● How God the Father addresses our spiritual, cultural, and family backgrounds.
● How Jesus brings a crisis to each of our hearts concerning our families
● The problem with deriving who we are from other fallen people.
● Our need to be reparented by our Heavenly Father.
● Key Bible Passages – Matthew 6:7-13, 10:34-39, 12:46-50, 23:8-9, Galatians 4:4-7, Ephesians 3:14-16 and Luke
2:41-50, 4:18-21, 14:25-27


LESSON 8 – GOD THE FATHER’S LOVE AND ACCEPTANCE
● God the Father’s particular type of love and acceptance for us, and what a good father is.
● God the Father’s desire to change the internal pictures we have of ourselves.
● God the Father’s desire to immerse us into a new family environment.
● Our worth in the eyes of God the Father.
● Key Bible Passages – Isaiah 53:4-12, Romans 5:1-8, Matthew 6:31-34 + 7:7-11, and Ephesians 1:16-18, 3:14-19


LESSON 9 – UNDERSTANDING GOD THE SON’S LOVE AND ACCEPTANCE
● God the Son’s love, acceptance, and affection for us.
● Why love is meant to be the foundation of our inner life.
● The Religiously Confused family environment.
● How what we believe affects our emotions.
● Key Bible Passages – Ephesians 1:3-10, 3:14-19, 1 Timothy 2:3-6, 1 John 4:8-11, 2 Corinthians 5:14-15, Galatians 5:1-8,
and Hebrews 1:1-3, 6:1-8 , 10:19-22


LESSON 10 – UNDERSTANDING OUR NEW FAMILY ENVIRONMENT
● The Family Environment of the Trinity (fully accepted, safe, and secure).
● Our response to God’s New Family environment.
● The Holy Spirit and His critical role in our daily lives.
● Key Bible Passages – John 14:1-17:26, Romans 8:35-39, 10:8-13, and Hebrews 13:5-6

Module 2: The Impact of Our Family Background

LESSON 4 – UNDERSTANDING THE HURTING HOME
● What a dysfunctional family is and its most common effects on people.
● How the Bible describes and addresses dysfunction.
● Key Bible Passages – Romans 3:9-18, Romans 3:10-12, and Proverbs 30:21-23


LESSON 5 – UNDERSTANDING THE EFFECTS OF THE HURTING HOME
● What the normal internal and external results are of growing up in a dysfunctional home.
● God’s heart for those who are raised in a dysfunctional family background.
● Identifying how we have been stumbled and how we have stumbled others.
● What the Bible says is needed to address the dysfunctional cycles within the family.
● Key Bible Passages – Matthew 18:3-10

Module 1: Our Spiritual & Cultural Origins

LESSON 1 – INTRODUCTION TO THE UNTYING THE KNOTS OF THE HEART EXPERIENCE
● Why there is a need for a Biblical group process like UTK.
● How Untying the Knots of the Heart is structured.
● The importance of, and how to create a safe group environment to help us sort through significant life issues.
● Group norms and values and their importance to creating a safe group environment.
● Key Bible Passages: John 7:37-38, Romans 12:-12, Ephesians 4:22-24, and Colossians 3:9-10


LESSON 2 – UNDERSTANDING OUR SPIRITUAL ORIGIN
● The Fall of Mankind and the devastating results.
● Our personal survival strategies in a Fallen World.
● What the Bible describes as being the first step towards spiritual, emotional and relational health.
● Key Bible Passages – Genesis 1, 2 and 3, John 17:13-24, James 5:13-16 and I John 1:3-2:2


LESSON 3 – UNDERSTANDING OUR CULTURAL ORIGINS
● How Western culture has shaped us.
● How cultural tendencies have impacted our inner life and relationships.
● The difference between being conformed and transformed.
● Key Bible Passages – Romans. 1:21-31 and 12:1-2 Ecclesiastes 1:15-18, 2:1-16, 12:13