[RR] Discipleship I mentoring

[Mark Jones]

The question was asked about where I found the confessing your sins section in the Discipleship I section.  pages 9 - 13 in the mentoring section.  Do a search for mentor in the pdf file.   The point I am trying to bring up to the front is this.  Do we believe God for  his prescribed method of living a sanctified life or do we follow man's methods.  In this LTA Discipleship I  section it says we believe God as he is the ultimate councilor but we want to add some to that and say find you a "paul" and confess to him what you have been thinking doing...etc.    My wife and I discussed this point for some time.  The catholics do this at a confessional.  AA does this in group meetings.   I have a whole bunch of faces in my mind that trusted man with their inner most secrets. They got burnt very badly by spirit filled dedicated christain folk.    As a Jehovah's Witness I witnessed "public reproof", disfellowshiping, all old testement law.  Biblical but not new covenant.   I have first hand experience with modern day christian councilors.  I have experienced first hand Headquarters firing a Godly man from the notes collected from in church in house counciling.  In this case a million dollar law suit was filed and won against this church and headquarters tried to cover it up.    My point is do you really want to by pass sharing your faults with God asking him to help you and trust in what Jesus has done for us.  This is how things are fixed anyway.      Every time you share what you have thought, done with someone other than the God who can fix it you are leaving yourself open to a imperfect sinful man who uses modern day man made pyscoloigy instead of faith in Jesus.      God won't let you down.  Man will almost every time.   Mark Jones