Reflection Options  

Journal​   (Reflect on one or more of these questions)

• Reflect on a time when God seemed to energize the care you had for another person.  Sometimes it’s hard to know if it was God--or something else.  One way to tell is by the spiritual fruit that is borne from the encounter.  What fruit did you see from the encounter you are thinking of?

• On a scale of 1-10, rate your consistency in looking to God for the love, energy or insight it takes to love others.  A “1” would be “I most always love others in my own strength.”  What do you think of the number you chose? What would you like to know or do in order to improve that number?

Quote Interaction  (Agree, disagree or otherwise engage with the quote/quotes) 

• “Charity is the sweet and holy bond which links the soul with its Creator: it binds God with man and man with  God.”  Catherine of Siena

• “Nothing is sweeter than love, nothing stronger or higher or wider; nothing is more pleasant, nothing fuller,  and nothing better in heaven or on earth, for love is born of God and cannot rest except in God, Who is above  all created things.”  Thomas Aquinas

• “To love someone means to see them as God intended them.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Reading & Reflection from the book, Shaping The Journey of Emerging Adults:

• Read the discussion between Rick and Jana on being led by the Spirit (p. 248).  What questions do you relate to? What do you think of “getting some flies” in the process of trying to follow the Spirit in loving others?

• Mentor: Look at the comparison chart on Telling vs. Pacing (p. 83).  Compare the two sides in regard to where reliance on the Spirit in engaging with another is important in disciple making.