Bruised Reeds, Second Chances and Finishing Well Part 18: Don’t Quit on the Gospel. But when I saw that their conduct was not in step with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas (Peter) before them all, “If you, though a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew,...
Bruised Reeds, Second Chances and Finishing Well Part 17: Can You Be Transparent? For I am the least of the apostles and do not even deserve to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me...
Bruised Reeds, Second Chances and Finishing Well Part 16: Confessing the Worst about Yourself For I am the least of the apostles and do not even deserve to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his...
Indispensable Leadership Skills #3: Let’s Get Honest About Confession At a prayer conference, the speaker, Daniel Henderson, instructed the participants to break up into groups of three and confess to each other a personal sin with which they were struggling, then...
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...