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@johnjohnston 😸so beautiful! thank you for posting these.
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@ReaderJohn Amen.
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@bobwertz done
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@jabel Timeless! 😸
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@teejay 😻 (this cat lady loves dogs too)
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@ReaderJohn Also, to be clear, I think the vast majority of cases that come under discipline are not due to people being coldly and intentionally predatory, but due to people looking to their congregations to provide the kind of validation and support they should be getting elsewhere. Often this happens when a minister is going through a rough period personally, or when a minister becomes a workaholic. Best advice I got about this was to “get a life,” make sure you have your own robust personal, emotional, and spiritual support and accountability systems outside of the congregation, make sure you’re getting and TAKING time off, don’t get yourself into a situation where you are turning to the congregation for what you ought be getting outside of it. (For most people, this means you need to have and maintain excellent boundaries.) There ARE genuinely predatory people out there who go into the ministry, just as they go into other professions which rely on public trust; but I think the vast majority of spiritual leaders who betray their congregations fall into it, rather than plan it. @johnBrady @tinyroofnail
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