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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 about the motives within. Wisdom is knowing where you stand before God leaving a thirst for Him above all things. A journeying reality is the starting point. The vision is the goal or outcome which should be an appetite for God over all outcomes. Reframing is the transition from the starting pointing to the goal, changing from the journeying reality to the vision. Finally the categories of understanding is remembering that each person has their own unique story and brokenness developed over time yet are made in God’s image.
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passion = checking the motives within in order to effectively begin the process of SoulCare
wisdom = helping to stir the appetite for God and release the Spirit of God in the life of another
journeying reality = the starting point for a person, their “You are here”
vision = the ultimate goal, in Soul Care we need the vision to be that the person has an appetite for God that is greater than anything, including their appetite for “solving the problem” of their journeying reality.
reframing = asking questions that start to transition the focus from the journeying reality to the vision of having an appetite for God that is greater than any other appetite.
categories of understanding = remembering this person is made in the image of God and has a capacity to love like God, but that they, like all of us, are a broken being, who needs the work of God.
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Passion: What’s going on inside of me?
Wisdom: What is going on inside that other person, and what is the Holy Spirit up to?
Journeying reality: a presenting problem, issue or burden
Vision: the person with an appetite for God stirred so much that the other appetites in life are diminished
Reframing: what is the whole story of this person’s soul? Relational patterns throughout life etc
Categories of understanding: this person is made in God’s image with the capacity to desire, perceive, choose and feel…and these capacities have been corrupted by the fall.
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In passion we must ask the question, ‘What is happening in me?’ How am I responding to this person and why, what is under the surface of the waterline. Wisdom then moves us to want the other person to have an appetite for God that surpasses all other appetites, and draws them deeper into relationship with God. Journeying reality is being present and safe for them to begin to open up their story to us, where have they been, where are they now, where are they going, their journey. Having a vision of where they are now, and being able to have a vision for where the Spirit could take them, and becoming excited to be a part of that journey. Being with someone next in reframing their story. Helping them to view their own relationships, where they see them as broken and how God, by His Spirit can guide them to reframe the story of their soul.
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Passion: Understanding what is going on inside of me motivating me in order to do something
Wisdom: Life’s experience motivating me to rely upon God’s direction
Journeying Reality: What is it that this individual is experiencing deep down inside right now
Vision: for this person to have an appetite for God that is stronger than their journeying reality
Reframing: for this person to see themselves and this reality they are living. To see God’s vision of them. And definitely not my vision,