This week we took a Spiritual Gifts inventory, designed by Dr. Larry Gilbert and discussed the results.

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                                          Bearing Witness

                                          Week Six

       The age of stress and crisis - practicing compassion without becoming part of the stress.

Fresh Peaches

Galatians 5:22-23  “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness and self-control.”

          Do any of those words generate feelings of stress or anxiety?

The Fruit of the Spirit is of the Spirit!

Caring for the Orchard

          Pruning – The Word of God

          Prayer

          Exercise

          Resisting stressors

          Meditation

                   Suggested Passages for Meditation:

                             The Lord’s Prayer

                          Twenty-psalm

                             II Corinthians 5:18

          Memories

Bearing Witness

                                              Week 5

                      “Love Must Be Sincere”

Jackie De Shannon – 1965

What does it mean to be friendly?  And how does that look different for different people?

Jesus was friendly!

Bearing Witness advice from…

Romans 12:9-21

I Corinthians 13:4-8

Jude 20-24 Job