Encouraging Motivation
Pastoral Reflections
Posted
Thursday, December 29, 2005
by
Charlie Trimm
I am going to post another academic paper soon (on whether or not we have the exact words of Jesus or just a paraphrase), but I have a more pastoral question at the moment. I do well working with motivated people who desire to grow spiritually. They are a joy to work with. But much more difficult for me is working with people who are apathetic. How do we work with people who are not motivated to grow spiritually? People who are believers, as far as we can tell, but are content with a mediocre Christian life? I realize that ultimately this is the responsibility of God to give them a passion to serve Him, but I also realize that he often gives this passion through various instrumentalities. So do anyone of you have any thoughts on this?
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