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Beyond dependency
 Yesterday we got together for the monthly Eden team leaders meeting. The topic for discussion was discipleship - what have we learned about helping young people not simply come to a place of making a decision to follow Jesus but to become established and consistent as young adults?
As usual we had a lively an wide-ranging conversation which would be very hard to summarise but one theme did emerge as really important: We must always beware of unhealthy dependencies.
The challenge for us is to offer all the love, support and encouragement we can, over the long term, but to do so in a way that carefully avoids creating a relationship where everything depends on us. It seems that over and over again, all over the city, whenever we can help young people to stand on their own two feet, living out their god-given potential, relying on the holy spirit, the fruit will last. And after all, that's the Jesus model isn't it? We build releasing relationships with the intention of getting out of the way as soon as possible so that they can get on with living the full life God has in store for them.
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matt wilson, 21/05/2008 |
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