Ten Vital Steps When Correcting Someone
1. Start in your “closet,” asking the Lord to give you a divine perspective.
2. Address your motives: is it redemptive or punitive?
3. Ask the Lord to give you divine affection for the person you will correct.
4. Address your frustrations you have with the person: you put Christ on the cross; there is no place for self-righteous corrections.
5. Remember you’re fallible; only imperfect people can correct flawed people. Proceed with caution.
6. Remember you’re working with incomplete information.
7. Do not cave to the fear of others.
8. Ask the other person how your correction “felt” to them. Perhaps you were harsh.
9. Give them a change plan. Don’t “hit and run” with your corrections.
10. Follow up the next day to see how you can continue to serve them. https://lifeovercoffee.com/podcast/ep-276-ten-sequential-and-vital-steps-when-correcting-someone/
The shocking and inspiring story of Sophie Ottaway.
Watch the full interview here: https://lifeovercoffee.com/podcast/ep-490-sophie-ottaway-engineered-at-birth-to-be-a-girl/
Focus on the Cause, not the Effect, so you can remove the cause and not be affected by the effect.
A local church’s worship value is not primarily about the music but the lifestyle because you never ask, “Are you worshiping?” The reason is that we worship all the time. God made us for worship—wired us for worship, you could say.
Worship is part of what it means to be image-bearers. Who could do otherwise? The better question is, “What or whom do we worship?” https://lifeovercoffee.com/three-characteristics-of-a-fantastic-local-church/
Whenever a person chooses sinful anger, he is, in effect, giving the other person control over him. It’s counterintuitive. In his anger, he is like a marionette, a puppet on a string.
Anger toward someone is the total submission of their thoughts, attitudes, emotions, and behaviors to the other person. It is not self-control, as governed by the Spirit of God, but someone out of control or under the control of another spirit. https://lifeovercoffee.com/podcast/ep-110-help-for-the-angry-person/
