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Dr. Crabb states that if you adopt the vision/goal stated above, “you will give up depending on your own competence. You will give up the pressure of having to make it happen, because you will know that you are out of your league.” How will knowing and believing this change the way you approach SoulCare?
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it feels contradictory. on the one hand, SoulCare says those 2 are the key goals. On the other hand, i will give up if those were my goals. I am curious to know how to overcome this. The hint is who do i depend on to achieve the goals of SoulCare.
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This allows you to enter the rest of God knowing that His works have been completed before the foundation of the world (Hebrews 4). Jesus said my yoke is easy and my burden is light.
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This will definitely change how I approach SoulCare. I always pray and search the scriptures as I’m working with individuals, but I always feel a need to have some type of ‘answer/solution/advice’. I cannot possibly have all the possible answers and often there is no specific answer, but one thing if truth beyond all doubt, Jesus Christ is the answer for all things. As I submit to Christ and experience Him myself, I can trust God to do the same for the person I am walking with. God is always at work, and sometimes He invites me to join Him that releases me from the worry that ‘I’ don’t have the answers.
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IT IS OVERWHELMING when I believe I am the only one who can “fix” someone’s situation, and I feel way over my head. I have and have seen others have a God Complex – where we think we can fix things -but it usually becomes quite evident that we are not God, and generally, the person we are trying to fix isn’t looking for someone to fix them – they are looking for someone to be near and walk with them. Kindness comes to mind – kindness says, I am here, and I care. I cannot fix your situation, but I will stay and walk with you.
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If I aim in SoulCare to guide the person towards an appetite for God and an experience of God, I will be deeply aware that only God can reveal Himself to a man to be so desired and known by the man. In my heart I will be crying to God to show up in the counselling session.
Having said that, I wonder if such a lofty, nebulous vision is too tangential to be helpful, or if it even conveys empathy at all. E.g. The father of the alcoholic son may not be struggling with guilt or anger at all. He may be worried that his son may be spiralling into self-destruction, and grieved that he is in fact doing so. Asking the father to spend more time with Jesus at 4am to become more like Jesus will neither help a son reform nor help a father not feel grief. Stating such a vision does not even convey understanding or empathy at all to the father!
Ultimately, how many real persons has this theory of SoulCare helped is the crucible test. Statistics don’t lie.
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