Tag: criticism
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The Dogpile Effect
Now about your love for one another we do not need to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love each other. And in fact, you do love all of God’s family throughout Macedonia. Yet we urge you, brothers and sisters, to do so more and more, and to make it…
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Your Ministry of Discouragement
Having just spent a week with Christian leaders I came home with a raw heart. Surely, I came home tired. But I also came home perplexed by our unique ability to discourage one another. Speaker shoes When I went to my first convention in 2002– the whole thing was weird for me. It all seemed…
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How to respond to critics of your ministry?
So you’re minding your own business and doing your thing. Then the phone rings and a friend calls saying something like this, “Did you know that someone in the church wrote about you on their blog? They didn’t say nice things! What are you going to do about it?” I can understand. For one thing,…