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"As you love yourself, you will love your neighbour". Transformation Happens. You Initiate In Love. You Experience Love. “As you love yourself”.
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Transformation Happens You Initiate In Love You Experience Love “As you love yourself”
A missionary is effective in their ministry when they become dependent on the people to whom they are called, with all the vulnerability that entails
"As you love yourself you will love your neighbour"( as your let your neighbour meet your needs you love him)Example: the poor need you to receive from them
Love is a Circuit Love is a circuit: break the flow anywhere and it flows nowhere
The 4 Stages of Maturity • Me • You • Obnoxious Me • We
Living in the Tension Our twentys– our needs for intimacy and others’ needs for inclusion Inappropriate behaviour- Extending mercy and exercising justice Finances – doing what’s right for the moment and what’s right for the future Sound system – transcendent worship and less human wear and tear Raising children – nurturing and accepting and challenging them to growth
"Holy Spirit…" “In what areas of my life have I inappropriately suppressed my own needs?” “In what areas have I been manifesting the “obnoxious stage”? “In what areas will I not make myself dependent on those I’m called to serve?”
The Beauty of Tension • Harmonize • Comply • Demand • Avoid Your Needs Others’ Needs
Pull Out Situation The observation rather than evaluation Feelings The feelings rather than the thoughts Needs The needs rather than the preferences Request The concrete rather than the abstract