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12 Steps to Identifying Your Functional Saviors

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12 Steps to Identifying Your Functional Saviors In The Bookends of the Christian Life , Jerry Bridges offers twelve "questions" to help us identify our functional saviors. These are great questions to ask yourself to gain insight to the direction our inner attitudes and desires are pointing us. 1. I am preoccupied with ________. 2. If only ________, then I would be happy. 3. I get my sense of significance from ________. 4. I would protect and preserve ________ at any cost. 5. I fear losing ________. 6. The thing that gives me greatest pleasure is ________. 7. When I lose ________, I get angry, resentful, frustrated, anxious, or depressed. 8. For me, life depends on ________. 9. The thing I value more than anything in the world is ________. 10. When I daydream, my mind goes to________. 11. The best thing I can think of is ________. 12. The thing that makes me want to get out of bed in the morning is ________. Source: http://thinklings.org/posts/12-steps-t...

Anne Jackson’s Permission to Speak Freely

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Anne Jackson’s Permission to Speak Freely What is one thing you feel you can't say in church? Anne Jackson asked that question on her blog and received hundreds of responses . Out of that question she's written Permission to Speak Freely – Essays and Art on Fear, Confession and Grace . She's shared seven essays from her book on seven different blogs . Each essay ends with a link to the next essay. Her seven essays form an emotional, convicting, heart-breaking yet encouraging story of faith lost and gained...relationships betrayed and restored . To read all the essays, you can follow the route below: Donald Miller (Essay #1 – The First Brick) Jon Acuff (Essay #2 – The Final Brick) Carlos Whittaker (Essay #3 – Losing Faith) Pete Wilson (Essay #4 – Finding Love in All the Wrong Places) XXXChurch.com (Essay #5 – Shattered Pixels) Catalyst Conference (Essay #6 – Ghosts of Churches Past) FlowerDust.net (Essay #7 – Listen...