FOUNDATION 9: YOU are meant for spiritual companionship.

What is your experience of spiritual companionship? How about spiritual friendship? Let's explore together how these are an important gift for the journey. 

 

TIME CODE: 

  • Intro (0:00–6:18)
    • Review of last week's foundation (0:34–1:57)
    • Discussion of Pulse shooting in Orlando (1:58–4:26)
    • Moment of prayer for Orlando victims (4:27–5:36)
    • Connection to this week's foundation (5:37–6:18)
  • Spiritual companionship in community (6:19–12:37)
    • What is your experience of community? (6:42–8:30)
    • What makes a community, and what can challenge our experience of them? (8:31–10:48)
    • Application to the Still Forming community (10:49–12:37)
  • Spiritual companionship in friendship (12:38–18:03)
    • What is your experience of spiritual friendship? (12:49–13:08)
    • Describing spiritual friendship in terms of size (13:09–14:08)
    • Describing spiritual friendship in terms of qualities (14:09–14:58)
    • Biblical support for our need for other perspectives (14:59–16:20)
    • Connection to our experiment with Still Forming village groups last year (16:21–17:04)
    • My experience with spiritual friendship (17:05–18:03)
  • Further biblical support for spiritual companionship (18:04–20:38)
  • Closing (20:39–21:12)

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This week's download: 

This week's reflection questions: 

  1. What has been your experience of community?
  2. What has been your experience of spiritual friendship?
  3. Where are you experiencing spiritual companionship right now? 

As always . . . you're invited to join us in the private Facebook group for conversation around these ideas and the sharing of your experience!