Discussion Questions
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After reviewing the Ten Key Concepts of the Basic Model of SoulCare, reflect on what you are feeling as you anticipate talking to people with these concepts in mind.
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Excitement is was first comes to mind. To have an understanding that I am inadequate to change another’s soul and that I need supernatural power to be a SouCare provider takes the pressure off. I look forward to God using my brokenness to touch someone else’s soul. There are of course some anxieties about how this will all play out.
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When I started this course I felt like there was some understanding and it would be a matter of completing the material. I knew the selfishness was there and have come to realize it more and hope in turning it over to God I can have soul trust in its place. I already do some soul care with mentoring and long for this to be in the Spirit and not in the flesh. Of the three people that are directly engaged in this, two want it and one only wants it at times. I am wondering how to move them into it more directly and looking forward to the next lectures.
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I am feeling alive to now share with another friend this concept of soul care. This has given me excitement for diving deep into anothers story to hear their heart and uncover the story thats been living in them since they were born.
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I realize all over again the depth of my selfishness, the reality of my own inadequacies, and my complete dependence on God for my entire life. There is a part of me that is pure- the desire to help people, for them to know God- and then the other part that receives affirmation when they say thank you, when I see their lives changed because of a suggestion I provided, and how that feeling is so attractive, yet a distraction from me finding God all sufficient. There’s another part of me that is really pretty good at listening to people’s emotional problems, but not at doing physical actions to help others, and seeing that inadequacy in me leaves me frustrated- and realize once again my fleshly limitations, and, I suppose, my own need for soul care. I realize in all this I need to stay present to myself and to others, and it is really like climbing up an iceberg with many facets and edges to account for and cling to. Good thing God knows everything and will lead us…
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It is so easy to want to stay in shallow conversation. It is easy to give advice there; it is safe. It feels like if you go below the water line, you aren’t sure if you might drown! But with the help of the Holy Spirit, a person can invigorate and explore another’s interior world. The things that feel the most “new” to me are the self-need vs soul-thirst, and looking at our ruling passions. I’ve begun to “turn my chair” toward others, but I think I do still stay within the realm of the current problem, versus going beyond it and being an agent for the Spirit to work!