Wow yes! Is it ever easy to do this when we don't know a person or take time to listen and get to know them. I am deep-nosed into some discipleship planning and when I think of the ways I have been taught on how to disciple someone in growing their relationship with Jesus, so much of the time was taught to start at a different ground zero, assuming a narrative that may or may not be true. How many people whose path of growth could've been more if we would have backed up and gotten to know the whole person instead of proceeding forward through "our" set of experiences we thought they needed to have to grow. Be still and get to know...
Wow yes! Is it ever easy to do this when we don't know a person or take time to listen and get to know them. I am deep-nosed into some discipleship planning and when I think of the ways I have been taught on how to disciple someone in growing their relationship with Jesus, so much of the time was taught to start at a different ground zero, assuming a narrative that may or may not be true. How many people whose path of growth could've been more if we would have backed up and gotten to know the whole person instead of proceeding forward through "our" set of experiences we thought they needed to have to grow. Be still and get to know...
Yes, "be still and get to know." I always seemed to be told to start at square one because of what I could not do. That was not the answer!