2d • General discussion
Assignment: write a plan to nurture one key relationship with wisdom this week
As a Pastor and missionary, you will have relationship challenges at every stage of ministry, and this has been my strategy and still is.
1. Identify the relationship – This could even be a new believer or someone who has been with us for
a while. This time is very crucial because it allows the person, as well as myself, to come to know
each other a little bit more.
2. Listen deeply over a meal or visitation – This time I usually listen to the person to understand, not
listen to judge, accuse or even prove right, but listen to understand. And if I need to speak, I speak
from a listening and understanding point to reach out to the person.
3. Aftercare – I usually send a message to let them know how I valued the time we shared.
4. Keeping in Prayer – Knowing them allows me to keep them in prayer.
5. Letting them know they are valued – This is something I intermittently do to keep nurturing the
relationship. (like a phone call, a message, or even inviting them for a meal.)
RECAP FROM YESTERDAY'S CLASS, SOLVING CONFLICT.
I am a company worker and still serve the LORD as a pastor, operating a mission school in Cambodia.
Working in the world as a Christian is one of the biggest challenges, I believe, Christians face. And as a pastor, it is even more challenging, but this is where I am being trained to learn how to make decisions about obeying or not obeying. Because when I find myself in a conflict, I am tempted to give it back, and when I do, I will always find myself repenting and asking the LORD for forgiveness because of His conviction. Sometimes, I am instructed to go and say sorry to the unbeliever who I know has a bad attitude, and that hurts. The LORD taught me a practical lesson for my own growth and how to yield and obey. He said, Victor, if you do not want to say sorry, then behave: (by being silent, walking away quietly, learning to speak in tongues under your breath during such occasions). I tried it, and I have seen results like the unbeliever coming back and behaving much better. So wisdom says: "IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO SAY SORRY THEN BEHAVE"
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Assignment: write a plan to nurture one key relationship with wisdom this week
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