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| f9933d7 | It is as though there is a splinter working its way to the surface, only this splinter is in your soul. And just as the skin wants a foreign object gone and pushes it out, the soul wants to be healthy and will not leave you in peace until you stop drenching it with the poisons of your feelings about the past. | spiritual-maturity local-church spiritual-growth | Stephen Mansfield | |
| 0ce95ee | When church becomes for us an anointed have, when the grace is flowing and all is well we become sentimental...we remake people into what we need them to be. We are not wise in our love, prudent in our commitments, knowing in our fellowship. And so the evil comes and we are first amazed and then destroyed and then knocked off our axis as if never to return. | church-hurt church-relations spiritual-maturity local-church healing sin | Stephen Mansfield |