All tagged series 'healthy responses'
Focus on direction can be difficult for leaders because we so often get swept up into the tyranny of the urgent.
I think a lot of how we think of pastoral care is actually care that’s happening at the intervention level of spiritual health.
Churches of Christ haven’t had a hard time wanting Christian unity, but we have had a difficult time keeping it.
”Your system is perfectly designed to get the results you are now getting!” Something is going to have to change in the system to produce a change in the outcomes.
Growth is movement. Growth is dynamic. Growth is process. Focus on cultivating healthy processes, and the content will improve.
"Focus on STRENGTH not weakness” is a response not only for the physical systems of the human body, but also complex emotional systems—like churches and families.
Christ-like love is tenacious in its ability to love others no matter how they respond. Only Christ-like love could compel someone to endure the shame and suffering of cross for the sake of others.
Sometimes it feels like we human beings are hard-wired to sabotage our own health simply by focusing our attention upon the wrong kinds of things.