SoulCare
April 12th, 2007
Recently I started doing a short course on ChristianCourses.com called “SoulCare”. It is based on Dr Larry Crabb’s book “Inside Out”. It is a “ten lesson course is designed to help you enter people’s interior lives at a meaningful level and make a lasting difference as they deal with life’s struggles and crises”.
For me this is something that I am interested in doing. I want to help people in a real and lasting way. In saying this though, I think I do at times fall into the trap of doing what it talks about below…keeping things shallow and pleasant!
Here’s a cut and paste from the first chapter/lesson…
“SoulCare focuses on the inner life. It focuses on the interior world of where true spiritual formation takes place, where we become who we are intended to be, where we become who we long to be, who we want to be.
SoulCare resists the distractions of making life work on the surface, and it resists the temptations to keep relationships shallow—and folks, that’s a huge temptation.
You feel it; I feel it in my small group, over lunch with friends. I feel such a temptation to not get involved in somebody else’s soul, but to keep things pleasant, to keep things shallow. SoulCare resists that temptation.”