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Sat, 16 Oct 2010 16:05:32 +0000

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By: Kerry Doyal

Kerry Doyal — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 16:24:30 +0000

John,

Thank you for highlighting this essential, yet ignored (avoided?) skill. I remember semi-shouting “where is the discernment?” as I threw my copy of Christianity Today across the room a few years ago. I had just read of more theological and character shenanigans of a prosperity gospel “pastor”. Yet 7000 parishioners can’t be wrong. All together now: “where is the discernment?”

Blessings in Him,

Kerry Doyal

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A Place For The God-Hungry » Blog Archive » Ministry Inside.12 — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:15:39 +0000

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By: Nellie

Nellie — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:51:01 +0000

I would agree that Jesus used analogies, metophores to describe outcomes that would make one think about how he/she should decide. I’m not sure if he did that only to provoke but to also give an example that they can certainly relate to.

By: John

John — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 06:08:44 +0000

Looked up Freire, good stuff. From Wikipedia,

“Freire is best-known for his attack on what he called the “banking” concept of education, in which the student was viewed as an empty account to be filled by the teacher. He notes that, “it transforms students into receiving objects. It attempts to control thinking and action, leads men and women to adjust to the world, and inhibits their creative power. . . The authority which the educator enjoys must not be allowed to degenerate into authoritarianism; teachers must recognize that “their fundamental objective is to fight alongside the people for the recovery of the people’s stolen humanity, not to “win the people over” to their side.”

Recalls Rookmaaker, “Jesus didn’t come to make us Christian, he came to make us fully human.”

By: steve scott

steve scott — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 21:15:54 +0000

Paolo Freire

By: John

John — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 19:40:11 +0000

John, after reading this, it occurred to me that many of today’s so-called “discernment ministries” are really little more than autocratic information clearinghouses.