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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
