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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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The role of passion is to be curious about what is happening in the other person’s life; whereas wisdom is the knowledge of what to do to be helpful for that person. Journeying reality helps us to know what is the presenting issues that they are facing now. Vision is the image of what that person may become, with the help of the Holy Spirit. Reframing refers to turning the direction of that person from finding solutions to finding God in the whole situation. Categories of understanding refers to what the root problem is, the flesh dynamics.
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Passion is what is going on inside of me as I turn my chair towards the other person. What are my thoughts and feelings as this person is sharing with me their story.
Wisdom. As this person opens up to me, what going on inside their heart. Allowing room for The Holy Spirit to go deeper into the person to bring them to hunger and thirst for God more than the circumstance of their situation.
Journeying reality brings the person from where they are coming from in life, all the family history, and their story as it is now to moving them to a place to open up to talk and wanting to relate to God.
Vision is seeing the reality of what God wants to do in greater measure for this person made in the image of God.
Reframing moving from journeying reality of what is affecting them to move to a larger topic ,which is the need of the soul to relate to God and relating to others.
Categories of understanding , what is the passion in me as I speak to be able to let wisdom stir and maneuver the appetite for soul care. To be broken before God so He can bring the person to repentance to turn towards Him. Abandoning all self to God’s provision. Having confidence in The Holy Spirit’s power to release what is most alive in me to the other person developing an appetite for God above all.
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Passion concerns what is in your heart as you listen to the other person. These thoughts, emotions and motives direct your focus. Hopefully you long for a vision for this person to hunger for God, that is larger than yourself.
Wisdom concerns what is in the other person’s heart. Hopefully you are wise enough to delve below the presenting problem into the internal world of the other person.
Journeying reality is Dr Crabb’s term for presenting problem. He doesn’t like to fix people’s problems. Instead, he sees the problem as the current reality in the person’s life, and he wants to journey with the person through that.
Vision is something larger than the presenting problem. It looks at how this person is an image-bearer, though a corrupted one, of God.
Reframing is to change the focus from just fixing a problem, to exploring what is in the person’s internal world, particularly how he relates to God and people.
Categories of understanding helps us ask the right questions and classify the data we get, as we explore the person’s internal world. We keep probing how this person, as an image-bearer of God, has the capacity to desire to relate, to perceive, to choose and to feel.
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Passion is understanding the ruling passion that is going on inside of me (my interior) as I turn my chair toward someone else, what are my interior motives. Am I looking at, depending on my own expertise? Am I looking to impress someone else. Am I really wanting to represent Jesus?
Wisdom is relying on the Spirit of God to guide us, knowing that on our own, we can do nothing that is truly effective SoulCare.
Journey Reality is the story of the person who is sharing their current situation/problem.
Vision is the compelling vision for someone that opens their appetitive for God so that I’d becomes stronger than any other appetite.
Reframing is moving from the journeying reality into the deeper story of the soul. How are they relating to family, friends, past history. How are they relating to God. Shifting to the power of God rather than the reality of the journey.
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passion- what’s going on inside of me; wisdom – what’s going on in them that the Spirit wants to touch through the Soulcarer; journeying reality – what’s the flesh dynamics (soul without t/Spirit) and how to go beyond/deeper in to the Spirit dynamics (soul with the Spirit and appetite for God is stirred/greater); vision – what’s the Spirit revealing as a greater hope that only God can fill and wants to fill; reframing – asking relationship questions of past, present, & w/God; categories of understanding – do I have a roadmap for how to understand what’s happening as I listen to their story