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Reprinted from The Christian Science Monitor: Biblical gardening tools
When people get together to accomplish something for their community—setting up a tutoring program, installing plants or bike racks, raising money for the library—there is sometimes a sense that everything depends on the efforts of a few clear-eyed, hardworking individuals. That way of thinking can lead to a personal sense of responsibility, clashing and bruised egos, and community activism burnout.
The Apostle Paul wrote to the communities of faith about how they could best work together toward their goals without “quarreling, jealousy, bad temper, rivalry, factions, party-spirit, envy . . . and things like that” (Galatians 5:20, 21, J.B. Phillips), conditions called “ugly parodies of community” in The Message.
Instead of depending on their own insights and energy, Paul urged the Galatians to be led by Spirit, to “live your whole life in the Spirit” (5:16, J.B. Phillips), to recognize only the animating, energizing power of Spirit in every activity.
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August 20, 2012 issue
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Letters
Joy V. Smith, H. Wyeth, Ad Walter Knoepfel, Jackie Mosk, Lisa Whitney, Claire Lackey
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A nurturing shepherd
Jeff Ward-Bailey, Staff Editor
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Our pastor: the foundation for Christian healing
Christine J. Driessen
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Church services heal
George Reed
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Dancing again
Joyce Posik
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When the pastor calmed me
Laura Remmerde
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Taking direction from God
Gil Bird
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Make way for the Christ
Sue Brightman
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Oneness
Susan Vreeland
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In heaven on earth
Don Houge
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Quote quandary
Maija Baldauf
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A pamphlet that changed my life
Elizabeth Harned
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'The rock that is higher than I'
Richard Requarth
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Purifying prayer for our oceans
Valorie Miller
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Living the commands of Jesus
Abby Fuller
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Give a 'cup of cold water'
Anna Lisa Kronman
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Hymns heal
Margaret Penfield
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Healed of hepatitis
Samuela Orth-Moore with contributions from David Orth-Moore
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The cyst lost its reality in my consciousness
Maritza Añez
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Sparks, embers, and fire
The Editors