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Lesson OneHoly Tension: Leading People Toward the Cycle of Spiritual Movement3 Activities1 Assessment
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Lesson TwoFour Kinds of Conversations: Provoking the Right Kind of Tension3 Activities1 Assessment
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Lesson ThreeThe Rhythm of SoulCare: Four Movements3 Activities1 Assessment
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Lesson FourThe Doctrine of First and Second Things: Beginning to Understand Radical Dependence on Supernatural Resources for Supernatural Living3 Activities1 Assessment
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Lesson FiveNew Covenant Provisions: Entering Tension that the Spirit Creates and Resolves3 Activities1 Assessment
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Lesson SixNew Covenant Community: What the Spirit Makes Possible3 Activities1 Assessment
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Lesson SevenSafety and Excitement: What Makes Someone Willing to be Known and Explored3 Activities1 Assessment
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Lesson EightThe Purity of Self-Awareness: Encouraging Trust in Another3 Activities1 Assessment
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Lesson NineDiscernment: Building Confidence in the Process of Discovery3 Activities1 Assessment
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Lesson TenReleasing What Is Alive: Touching the Soul with Power3 Activities1 Assessment
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Course Wrap-UpCourse Completion1 Activity1 Assessment
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Discussion Questions
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Briefly review what role each of the following topics plays in SoulCare: passion, wisdom, journeying reality, vision, reframing, and categories of understanding.
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Passion is being aware of what is inside of me, how I’m reacting. I need to be aware of whether I am acting out of some selfish motivation or out of love. Wisdom is seeking to learn what is happening inside the other person so that I can have some idea of which direction to move by the Spirits leading. The presenting problem that your friend shares is the journeying reality. Framed thus it faces the fact that at this point in that person’s life, this is the reality of what’s going on in their life. We have to think vision as we hear the journeying reality, to see things in a bigger picture and as part of what God is wanting to do in this persons life. Reframing the problem means viewing it in light of present important relationships, past important relationships, and present immediate relationships. These have a direct relationship to the current condition of this person’s soul. The categories of soul care are first that they are a disappointed image bearer who longs for relationship. They are demanding that things be set to rights in their relationships and feel justified in their demands. And they are also a redeemperson with a vital appetite for God, forgiven and having new heart. That appetite often is buried beneath the mess of demands.
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Passions: the things that rule in you that can be holy or unholy
Wisdom: Speaking truth in love with the power of the Holy Spirit
Journeying Reality: Your “red dot”, where you are at any given time and join someone in their red dot
Vision: Seeing all people as fallen image-bearers and helping them see their deepest passion is for God, What is God up to in this person?
Reframing: A paradigm shift from Flesh dynamics to Spirit dynamics, looking at the interior world of a person and not the presenting problem
Categories of understanding: Keeping in mind all people are fallen image bearers who need God to change, flesh dynamics vs. spirit dynamics, Where is the person’s red dot, all people have a deep passion for God, but don’t always know it, all people desire, perceive, choose, and feel -
Passions are with us and we need to let the ruling passion of the flesh be uncovered and repented of or given over to the Holy Spirit’s passion. Journeying Reality is the issue that the person will present and vision is seeing them want God’s glory more than that which is brought out in relationships. Reframing is asking about, seeing, and reflecting on what is happening in relationships. Categories of understanding – Brokenness through Release help you process what is happening in both of you and let the Spirit work in you and share so that the Spirit can to work in them.
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Passion: In touch with your interior world. Why I do what I am doing; What drives me? Why am I responding in this manner.
Wisdom: Keep God in sight, to gain insights. Understanding what God is doing in and through our lives – both the counselor and counselee.
Journeying reality: Where the counselee is right now, is a journey, not a dead end.
Vision: Potential. Where is our destination? Fix the problem, or leading the person to see a larger story of God? What will his/her life be like when He allows the Spirit to work in him.
Reframing: A paradigm shift from “Flesh-dynamics” to Spirit-dynamics – Self-centered to others-centered, as we centered on Christ!
Categories of understanding: Brokenness (I am nothing) leads to repentance (I am sorry) ; repentance (I am sorry) leads abandonment to God (I Choose God over all else) (Philippians 3:8); Abandonment to Confidence in God (God is good and able: depend on God, than self-reliance (Philippians 4:13); Confidence leads to Release – (God frees me to live as He create me to) What the Spirit can accomplish what God has already deeply put within us. A growing appetite for God. -
Passion: What is driving me and the individuals that participate with me in Soulcare, Motives, desires, needs behind actions.
Wisdom: Holy Spirit lead interaction that helps me direct my curiosity for the individual in Soulcare and review my own desires in actions and let them go to be directed by the Spirit.
Journeying reality: Where that person is at in their spiritual journey and where you are intersecting that journey, keeping the curiosity and care focused on what the Holy Spirit desires at that point and initiates you to pursue.
Vision: Perceiving what could be through the aid and guidance of the Holy Spirit in that persons life, the ultimate goal of a thirst for God above all else.
Reframing: Similar to Paradigm shift, scanning over and reviewing the pieces to see their reality and how it effects their Soul and Journeying reality.
Categories of Understanding: Processing tools to understand Soulcare individuals soul story, the Flesh Dynamics that have effected that place and shaped their story.
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How might your experiences in the cycle of spiritual growth help you provide more effective SoulCare?
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Why is it a mistake to focus on retreating, advising, or empathizing while attempting to provide SoulCare? Which of these three mistakes are you personally more likely to make as you attempt to engage in SoulCare? What do you think predisposes you to make that mistake?
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