Comments on: Thank you Jea-sus! (now if I could only do that with my soul….) http://thruthespectacles.com/ttsblog/archives/71 Now we see but a poor image... Fri, 13 Feb 2009 13:50:13 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: friendoftts http://thruthespectacles.com/ttsblog/archives/71/comment-page-1#comment-52 friendoftts Sun, 12 Oct 2008 20:41:36 +0000 http://thruthespectacles.com/ttsblog/?p=71#comment-52 Enjoyed reading your blog. Short and to the point. Like that. I thought about the Crkr82 comment about not having any male relationships that are intentionally intimate. I appreciate the honesty (however anonymous in this forum). If it's any encouragement, I recently told a couple of guys that I wanted to be like them. I genuinely saw in them the qualities that I wanted to grow in... grace, prayer life, steadfastness, etc. Anyway, I think it's okay to seek out spiritual brothers and say, "would you like to get together on Saturday mornings to read/study/pray together? I don't need another men's group to go bowling or anything but I do want to hang out with guys who I think I can learn from." Pray about those guys who you think you can learn from and ask them. Ps 101:6 doublemyvision Enjoyed reading your blog. Short and to the point. Like that.

I thought about the Crkr82 comment about not having any male relationships that are intentionally intimate. I appreciate the honesty (however anonymous in this forum). If it’s any encouragement, I recently told a couple of guys that I wanted to be like them. I genuinely saw in them the qualities that I wanted to grow in… grace, prayer life, steadfastness, etc. Anyway, I think it’s okay to seek out spiritual brothers and say, “would you like to get together on Saturday mornings to read/study/pray together? I don’t need another men’s group to go bowling or anything but I do want to hang out with guys who I think I can learn from.”

Pray about those guys who you think you can learn from and ask them.

Ps 101:6
doublemyvision

]]> By: crkr82 http://thruthespectacles.com/ttsblog/archives/71/comment-page-1#comment-51 crkr82 Sat, 11 Oct 2008 13:28:54 +0000 http://thruthespectacles.com/ttsblog/?p=71#comment-51 Wow, great blog entry! Yes, running the maintenance routines on a computer (or in another genre, taking the car in for an oil change every 3000 miles)can make all the difference in performance... and neglecting that habit can be very detrimental. I need to be as diligent on my spiritual disciplines as I "preach" to others to be about maintaining their computer equipment. Personal confession, making sure that I am rooted in Biblical truth and pondering (meditating on) it daily is something I have been getting better at - nothing like public blogging to help with a sense of accountability. But you also mentioned spiritual friendships for accountability... some say disciple relationships, some say mentoring, some say being in a small group... whatever - but not just getting together for "hang time with the guys." I don't have a single male relationship where there is intentional intimacy (into me see)... I'm in two "small groups" that meet semi-sporadically but honestly, I'm not "doing life" with anyone. This has become enough of an issue that it not only bothers me; but that my wife has brought it up... But how do I find it... and once found, how do I maintain it? Is God nudging me to leave "group membership" for something far deeper and more challenging? I'm scared... Crkr82 Wow, great blog entry!
Yes, running the maintenance routines on a computer (or in another genre, taking the car in for an oil change every 3000 miles)can make all the difference in performance… and neglecting that habit can be very detrimental.
I need to be as diligent on my spiritual disciplines as I “preach” to others to be about maintaining their computer equipment.

Personal confession, making sure that I am rooted in Biblical truth and pondering (meditating on) it daily is something I have been getting better at – nothing like public blogging to help with a sense of accountability.
But you also mentioned spiritual friendships for accountability… some say disciple relationships, some say mentoring, some say being in a small group… whatever – but not just getting together for “hang time with the guys.”

I don’t have a single male relationship where there is intentional intimacy (into me see)… I’m in two “small groups” that meet semi-sporadically but honestly, I’m not “doing life” with anyone. This has become enough of an issue that it not only bothers me; but that my wife has brought it up…
But how do I find it… and once found, how do I maintain it? Is God nudging me to leave “group membership” for something far deeper and more challenging?

I’m scared…
Crkr82

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