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North Idaho Teaching Mission Group
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Ministry,
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Application
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Teachers:
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Helena,
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Elyon
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August 5, 2001
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==Heading==
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===Topic: ''Ministry''===
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===Group: [[N. Idaho TeaM]]===
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==Facilitators==
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===Teacher: [[Helena]], [[Elyon]]===
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===TR: [[Jonathan]]===
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==Session==
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===Opening===
 
Ginny: I would like to ask the teachers about ministry being so hard. Am I doing the right thing? Is this what it's all about?
 
Ginny: I would like to ask the teachers about ministry being so hard. Am I doing the right thing? Is this what it's all about?
    
Helena (Jonathan TR): I greet you, this is Helena. I am happy to make this contact in this manner.
 
Helena (Jonathan TR): I greet you, this is Helena. I am happy to make this contact in this manner.
 
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===Lesson===
 
It is purposeful, your current engagement in ministry. As you know from experience your opportunities for outreach appear on the heels of attainment in your own right. The qualifications you have acquired are immediately serviceable to those around you. The difficulty you experience is not due to your relative level of preparedness, for that is given; you are prepared. It is more that the arena within which you are functioning in ministry is new and therefore unsettling.
 
It is purposeful, your current engagement in ministry. As you know from experience your opportunities for outreach appear on the heels of attainment in your own right. The qualifications you have acquired are immediately serviceable to those around you. The difficulty you experience is not due to your relative level of preparedness, for that is given; you are prepared. It is more that the arena within which you are functioning in ministry is new and therefore unsettling.
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You all have been taught that you will teach those just a little behind yourself and will be taught by those just a little advanced from you. This holds true. There are unique situations, as you are encountering, wherein a soul is reaching for a level and steps out of step with the path the soul has been taking. There is a chasm that must be crossed. This is more difficult to approach, for it is not the sequential manner of one lesson being taught by another who has learned it but rather to bridge from one paradigm to another. You are recruited to this opportunity because you are prepared with the necessary ingredients to assemble that bridge and expedite the crossing to bring that individual to the experiential step of growth where they would have been under more ideal circumstances. You will not be able to backtrack, to retrace steps of a journey that has tangented away from an expeditious course of growth.  
 
You all have been taught that you will teach those just a little behind yourself and will be taught by those just a little advanced from you. This holds true. There are unique situations, as you are encountering, wherein a soul is reaching for a level and steps out of step with the path the soul has been taking. There is a chasm that must be crossed. This is more difficult to approach, for it is not the sequential manner of one lesson being taught by another who has learned it but rather to bridge from one paradigm to another. You are recruited to this opportunity because you are prepared with the necessary ingredients to assemble that bridge and expedite the crossing to bring that individual to the experiential step of growth where they would have been under more ideal circumstances. You will not be able to backtrack, to retrace steps of a journey that has tangented away from an expeditious course of growth.  
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  Be alert for any springboard, any comment, any expressed wish, hope, or even grievance that may open discussion of conceptual considerations that you have comprehended and are adept at expressing that could be that shunt which will allow the one you seek to serve to make that crossover.
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Be alert for any springboard, any comment, any expressed wish, hope, or even grievance that may open discussion of conceptual considerations that you have comprehended and are adept at expressing that could be that shunt which will allow the one you seek to serve to make that crossover.
    
If you picture a vertical line, the path of ascent to the Father that all individuals must make, everyone has a vertical line of their own that is less than the ideal plumb path of ascent. Each of us lies near, to some degree, that perfect course. There is where spirit enfolds all to draw us in to that ideal ascension. Some have let their lines tip to extremes away from that smooth course of growth; some with keen intellects and demanding emotions which, while powerful tools for growth, can also inhibit growth with the lure of deviation. This is what I mean by 'you will not be able to back up', to go down that line to the starting point to rise in a more ideal manner. You will need to look for the crossover to help that individual adjust to the proximity of a better ascent.
 
If you picture a vertical line, the path of ascent to the Father that all individuals must make, everyone has a vertical line of their own that is less than the ideal plumb path of ascent. Each of us lies near, to some degree, that perfect course. There is where spirit enfolds all to draw us in to that ideal ascension. Some have let their lines tip to extremes away from that smooth course of growth; some with keen intellects and demanding emotions which, while powerful tools for growth, can also inhibit growth with the lure of deviation. This is what I mean by 'you will not be able to back up', to go down that line to the starting point to rise in a more ideal manner. You will need to look for the crossover to help that individual adjust to the proximity of a better ascent.
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If there are other questions, I would receive them at this time.
 
If there are other questions, I would receive them at this time.
 
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===Dialogue===
 
Evelyn: I guess there aren't.
 
Evelyn: I guess there aren't.
 
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===Closing===
 
Elyon: I will then draw a close in prayer:
 
Elyon: I will then draw a close in prayer:
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May we be emboldened in the awareness that the significance of our mission is shared by a multitude of personalities, that where sixty minutes are gathered an hour has arrived. Let us draw our strength in this association knowing fully of Your ever constant indwelling presence.
 
May we be emboldened in the awareness that the significance of our mission is shared by a multitude of personalities, that where sixty minutes are gathered an hour has arrived. Let us draw our strength in this association knowing fully of Your ever constant indwelling presence.
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[[Category: The Teaching Mission: Dialogues]]
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[[Category: N. Idaho TeaM]]
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[[Category: Helena]]
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[[Category: Elyon]]
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[[Category: Jonathan]]
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[[Category: 2001]]

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