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The Toughest Hill – Restitution

Restoration in a Transformational Community 20: The Toughest Hill – Restitution The third phase of the restoration process is restitution. Though none of these phases are easy, this is going to be the most challenging one for the team and the person. The...

Settling for Nothing Less than True Repentance

Restoration in a Transformational Community 19: Settling for Nothing Less than True Repentance The second phase of the restoration process is confession and repentance. Some of this may begin to take place during the stability phase, but often the level of repentance...

First We Need Stability

Restoration in a Transformational Community 18: First We Need Stability The restoration process has four phases through which your team is to guide the person. There is no timetable for these phases. As you work with the person, you will be able to sense when you are...

Where Do We Start?

Restoration in a Transformational Community 17: Where Do We Start? So how do you actually do restoration? It kicks into gear when the person caught in sin starts meeting with the team. Your team is not there to be the primary counselors for the person, but to be with...

It Takes a Community to Restore

Restoration in a Transformational Community 16: It Takes a Community to Restore The man that I was visiting was a broken one. He had had it all—loving wife, talented children, respect from young people who were learning from him at a school where he taught and a...

Character Matters

Restoration in a Transformational Community 15: Character Matters In a long phone conversation with a lawyer bent on protecting his client from a deeply needed restoration process, I was being berated and threatened with a lawsuit. At some point, I stopped talking...

Loving Enough To Restore

Restoration in a Transformational Community 14: Loving Enough To Restore I really loved the person with whom I was meeting. But he did not want to be in this after-the-sin-had-been-exposed meeting and he did not particularly think that I loved him. Or, if I had loved...

Learning Through Experience

Restoration in a Transformational Community 13: Learning through Personal Experience How does one unlearn deeply ingrained beliefs that hamper the work of restoring someone caught up in sin? One answer is not what I would wish for anyone, but I know that the day that...

Unlearning False Truths

Restoration in a Transformational Community 12: Unlearning False Truths Learning to restore those who fall has to start with unlearning what you may think you know now. So much of what I see practiced with people in need of restoration is based on beliefs not...

Are Sin and Pain Connected?

Restoration in a Transformational Community 11: Are Sin and Pain Connected? I teach believers how to identify and deal with their unfinished business. Unfinished business is all the spiritual, emotional and mental baggage we accumulate and continue to carry even after...