GIVE THEIR PROBLEMS BACK
Oftentimes in the ministry, we are asked to help people get rid of the negative parts of their lives. Perhaps we would be more effective in ministering to them if we concentrated on helping them add something to their lives. Thomas Moore puts it well in his book, The Care of the Soul. He says, “It’s remarkable how often people think they will be better off without the things that bother them. ‘I need to get rid of this tendency of mine,’ a person will say. ‘Help me get rid of these feelings of inferiority and my smoking and my bad marriage.’ If, as a therapist, I did what I was told I’d be taking things away from people all day long. But I don’t try to eradicate problems. I try not to imagine my role to be that of exterminator. Rather, I try to give what is problematical back to the person in a way that shows its necessity,…
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