Hello Everyone,
Welcome to Soul Survival.
Today I’d like to share a piece of my testimony. It’s just a piece, but a very important one as I look back over my life.
Almost 20 years ago, something happened that rocked my walk with God. And it didn’t just happen to me, it happened to my husband, as well.
God had been prodding both of us to get more involved in our church. You see we had been wounded a few years before and we were leaving behind one of those “we’ll-just-go-to-church-and-leave-right-afterward” seasons. Maybe you’ve had one. As you may have learned, God is never content to leave us there.
This particular Sunday morning, the person making the announcements told us about a weekend conference that was coming up. When I suggested we attend, my husband reluctantly agreed.
It turned out to be the first part of a course that would revolutionalize our faith and what would become our calling. It was put on by the Biblical Counseling Foundation and was called “Self-Confrontation.”
The man who introduced the sessions that Friday night told us that we were going to get a lot of teaching and, in fact, we would feel like we had been given a drink with a firehose. He was right.
The subtitle on the book for the course read, “A Manual for In-Depth Discipleship.” It turned out to be the kind of discipleship we are called to spend our lives learning and sharing with others.
We may not have been able to explain it all when that weekend was over, but what we knew was that there was a level of the Christian walk that we had never experienced in our 16 or 17 years as believers. And we wanted it!
Over the next couple of years, we took the complete course, attended their teacher training, began teaching the course at our home church, and started using the principles to help other couples and individuals who needed someone to come alongside them. We were even blessed to be able to travel to a few conferences with the BCF team as they taught in other states and in Mexico. We have continued to teach the course periodically.
But the principles … those life-changing, soul-rocking principles … have become the foundation of our lives because each one is taken right out of God’s Word.
Within a couple of years after taking that initial weekend seminar, we went on to get additional training in biblical counseling and go into the ministry full-time. But the principles we learned in that “Self-Confrontation” course are the same ones we use today. They are the same ones that we have shared with countless family members, friends, disciples, and counselees and they are the ones I blog about here. But more than anything, they are the ones that radically changed our lives, our marriage, our thinking, and our hearts.
Over the next few weeks, I want to share some of those principles with you. I know they can impact you as profoundly as they have impacted us. God’s Word is that powerful!
If you would like a preview, you can check out my recent daily post, “A Change of Thinking that Could Rock Your World.” It’s about one of those principles.
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This Week’s Featured Post:
“Sins of the Fathers {& Mothers}”
What does it mean that God visits the iniquity or the sins of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation? Are those children doomed spiritually? Are they bound to repeat their parents’ sins? Will they bear the guilt or the punishment for their parents’ sins? These are important questions to understand.
A Round-Up of Other Recent Posts:
“10 Steps to Parenting God’s Way”
“Ladies, Could You Be Rotten?”
“Do Our Children Know More about Easter or Easter Bunnies?”
“Are You Trusting God or Working in Your Own Strength?”
“Criticism, Stupidity & The Cross”
“Out of the Mouths of Babes & Teenagers”
“Modesty, Discretion, Fraud & Pig’s Noses”
Coming Up in the Daily Posts:
In the coming days, we’ll look at self-righteousness, what can keep us from becoming discouraged and what the Bible has to say about animal rights. We will, also, look at warnings about fortune tellers and their lot, talk about how trusting God applies to our choices, and discuss when to help (especially our grown children) and when to get out of the way. I hope you’ll come back to learn more about these subjects and more.
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Blessings,
Donna
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