The Old Gate: Schemas Lead to Scheming
Dr. Robyn Kassas
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September 9, 2026
In this episode, Dr. Nathan Kassas and Dr. Robyn Kassas explain how a schema becomes a scheme: the schema interprets, the prediction anticipates, and the scheme tries to control the outcome. Using examples of abandonment, mistrust, and powerlessness, they show how a distorted map produces distorted strategies. Sarah's plan to give Hagar to Abraham and Saul's pursuit of David illustrate schemes that interfere with God's dream. Dr. Nathan describes how the body's threat response can become false evidence for a schema, and how control is often mistaken for safety. Doing whatever fear demands pulls us from intimacy into performance. God's rhema brings truth about the situation, calls us rather than predicts, and leads us to be dreamers, not schemers.
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