What is a Culture of Healthy & Uplifting Correction?
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What is a Culture of Healthy & Uplifting Correction?

This can be a difficult one… few people are naturally comfortable and gifted at challenging and correcting others who perhaps aren’t biologically related aka children. We may feel like we aren’t called to judge others (correct!), nor are we able to speak into other’s lives (incorrect!). You may think: “You don’t know me… you don’t know my life!” Well… that thought may be absolutely correct. So how do we change that? For we are our brother’s keeper… our sister’s keeper. Let’s make sure we don’t take the posture of Cain (the banished son of Adam and Eve). His example may not be the best to emulate.

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What is Well-Developed Group Identity based on the Character of Christ?
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What is Well-Developed Group Identity based on the Character of Christ?

When you know who you are you know what to do! - @craiggroeschel - Does your group know who they are in relation to one another? What does it look like to live in and as your group? How do you treat one another? How do you love? How do you act when together? How do you have tough conversations? How do you challenge one another?

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What is Hesed Love of Securely Attached Communities?
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What is Hesed Love of Securely Attached Communities?

❤HESED❤ (חֶ֖סֶד, pronounced kheh-sed”) is a Hebrew word we find 246 times in the Old Testament. Like many Hebrew words, it’s difficult to capture the meaning in just one word. HESED is translated using the words mercy, loving kindness, steadfast love, kindness, loyal love. Theologian John Oswalt said HESED is “… a completely undeserved kindness and generosity”.

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What is True Joy found through Connection & Relationships?
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What is True Joy found through Connection & Relationships?

😄What is true joy found through connection & relationships?😄Simply stated, true joy is found and multiplied when people are simply glad to be with one another. When we are able to say, "there's no other place I'd rather be and no one else I'd rather be with!" And it shows! Especially on the face.

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Four Necessary Ingredients to Develop & Maintain a Vibrant, Transformational Community
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Four Necessary Ingredients to Develop & Maintain a Vibrant, Transformational Community

Brain science has revealed amazing findings on how God wired our brains and how that effects our spiritual growth and #discipleship journey. Our life experience first enters through the right side (relational connection; primal; experiential) of our brain then passes to the left side (information processing; logical; strategic)... which simply means that information alone does not bring about life transformation; we need these four biblical ingredients.

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