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Guidance is when we help others learn to listen to God. It’s not just ‘good advice’ or wise counsel. It is about helping people discern what God is telling them to do.
The Quaker tradition has what is called Clearness Committees. The committee’s job is to ask questions, lots of them. By asking [...]

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Debunking the Myths
Sitting across from someone, asking a list of sin management questions, then finally asking if they have lied to you is a poor imitation of accountability. Real accountability is getting ‘on the scale’ to see if the application is working. Ideally, what lifewalking means is that we are ‘in each other’s stuff’ enough [...]

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It is not merely enough to study and know God’s word. It must be applied to real life. That is the definition of application - putting the Word of God on our real-life situations. Immediately we are faced with two problems.
The first problem can be found with the wonderful WWJD cliché. [...]

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We - the Aimster,me and 16 of our closest friends - leave the country in a little less than 52 hours. That’s nuts. And I’m exhausted. Not curl up in bed for days exhausted - but the “If I talk about one more ‘issue’, I’m gonna open up a can of whip-butt on someone.”
And here [...]

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Correction, Spiritual & Functional
Our leaders will need correction in order to develop. Let’s first make a distinction between two types of correction. It’s important that all parties involved know the difference AND know which one is the topic of the day.
Spiritual Correction is about sin issues. Gossip, slander, breaking confidences, and lying. More often than [...]

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Before you get images of standing on the sideline screaming “L-I-F-E!” at your leaders, let’s get a biblical understanding of what encouragment is.
Let’s start with Hebrews 10:24-25.
And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds…let us encourage one another.
The word encourage means “to make sharp, to irritate, to [...]

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