http://www.truefaced.com/blog/2009/03/23/ministering-from-the-message/ Discovering Grace Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:34:29 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 http://www.truefaced.com/blog/2009/03/23/ministering-from-the-message/comment-page-1/#comment-4578 Julie Thu, 26 Mar 2009 04:58:13 +0000 http://www.truefaced.com/blog/?p=126#comment-4578 Hi John; You don't know me. I listened to your truefaced message (quite awhile ago) and loved it. I bought multiple CD's and passed them out to my kids, family and friends. I have been trying to find your CD to listen again. Tried to get one back from people I gave them to. The problem lies in staying in the room of grace (how do you make the R roll when typing?) I grew up in performance based living. I'm tired of the mask and striving, but how does that change?? I find people are much more comfortable if you leave the mask on. Continue on, status quo. I haven't found too many grace based Christians. My acceptance by my dad was always based on performance and at 51 I try very hard not to transfer that to God my Father. But I find when I don't do what I "should do", I let God down. At least thats how I feel. It gets old. I know this is not the comment you were looking for on this blog, but I have been trying to figure out where to bring this subject up with you and this seemed as good as any. Thanks Hi John;
You don’t know me. I listened to your truefaced message (quite awhile ago) and loved it. I bought multiple CD’s and passed them out to my kids, family and friends. I have been trying to find your CD to listen again. Tried to get one back from people I gave them to. The problem lies in staying in the room of grace (how do you make the R roll when typing?) I grew up in performance based living. I’m tired of the mask and striving, but how does that change?? I find people are much more comfortable if you leave the mask on. Continue on, status quo. I haven’t found too many grace based Christians. My acceptance by my dad was always based on performance and at 51 I try very hard not to transfer that to God my Father. But I find when I don’t do what I “should do”, I let God down. At least thats how I feel. It gets old. I know this is not the comment you were looking for on this blog, but I have been trying to figure out where to bring this subject up with you and this seemed as good as any. Thanks

]]> http://www.truefaced.com/blog/2009/03/23/ministering-from-the-message/comment-page-1/#comment-4573 Cynthia Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:23:25 +0000 http://www.truefaced.com/blog/?p=126#comment-4573 Toben, A good place to start is first of all prayer. Ask the Holy Spirit to provide opportunities to have those conversations. In this world today, it seems most don't want to talk about those serious things and why? Maybe they need to. I try to focus on the other person and just ask questions. Everyone likes to talk about themself whether we want to admit or not. Questions allow freedom if we don't judge. If they have wrong ideas, point them to scripture. Have you ever been exposed to William Fay's material on How to Share Jesus without fear? It is a great resource. I learned so much from it and it has a handy tear out in the back of the book to carry with you to refer to for your scriptures and right approach. Hope this helps! Cynthia Toben,
A good place to start is first of all prayer. Ask the Holy Spirit to provide opportunities to have those conversations. In this world today, it seems most don’t want to talk about those serious things and why? Maybe they need to. I try to focus on the other person and just ask questions. Everyone likes to talk about themself whether we want to admit or not. Questions allow freedom if we don’t judge. If they have wrong ideas, point them to scripture. Have you ever been exposed to William Fay’s material on How to Share Jesus without fear? It is a great resource. I learned so much from it and it has a handy tear out in the back of the book to carry with you to refer to for your scriptures and right approach. Hope this helps!
Cynthia

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