Christian Learning Center › Forums › Discussion Forum › 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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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?
Austin replied 1 month, 2 weeks ago 161 Members · 166 Replies
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It will take away the pressure that I might put on myself to have the perfect answer. God is in control and sovereign and knows what He is trying to accomplish in the situation. I need to ask Him to help me listen with my heart and trust Him to guide me in the words I use.
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I will come to understand it is not a “fix the problem” scenario. The question becomes one of how can this problem be used to draw this person closer to knowing God? I don’t need to provide any answers. Change will only come about by God through the Holy Spirit. I would like to say I’m a guide on the journey, but I’m not sure I would even be that. Honestly, we would both be on a journey together. As I see this person growing in their appetite for and experience of God, I’m hoping I would be growing in those as well.
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Dr Crabb states that for us to be effective in Soul Care, we must learn two basic things.
1. It arouses an appetite for God that is there and also having a appetite that is stronger than any other thing.
2. When the person that have an appetite that drives him to Christ and he thirsts after God.
This means that , my life as Soul Care provider is totally dependent on God and the guidance of the Holy Spirit because Soul Care is not a technique or list of how-tos . Is a vision that comes out of us and requires us to develop and release the Spiritual power that is inside us to help engage effectively with this person so that the compelling vision of becoming more like Christ becomes fulfilled in that person’s life. You see yourself empty but taking the fullness of God to help you fulfill this vision. -
I will have to rely on the Holy Spirit to do anything. Not on my own competence.
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I think when the target is set to an achievable goal that seems possible and within my ability I tend to count on my own “wisdom” in guiding others, but when the target is set to something that I know only God can do in someone’s life, a touch of God’s beauty that changes his/her heart, I know this is completely beyond my abilities and I turn to God, asking the Holy Spirit to intervene and touch my heart and the person’s heart to guide us both on our journey with God and make us witness His beauty and His wisdom in every step along the way.