How do you recognize abusive leadership? Abusive churches and Christian leaders characteristically: Make dogmatic prescriptions in places where Scripture is silent. Rely on intelligence, humor, charm, guilt, emotions, or threats rather than on God’s Word and prayer (see Acts 6:4). Play favorites. Punish those who disagree. Employ extreme forms of communication (tempers, silent treatment). Recommend courses of action which always, somehow, improves the leader’s own situation, even at the expense of others. Seldom do good deeds in secret. Seldom encourage. Seldom give the benefit of the doubt. Emphasize outward conformity, rather than repentance of heart. Preach, counsel, disciple, and oversee the church with lips that fail to ground everything in what Christ has done in the gospel and to give glory to God.
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Re: 101 steps to a simpler life

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#1 · February 16, 2014, 9:44 pm

Posted by: cyberkat <cyberkat@...>

Whew!  Good list, Lisa.  I liked #74 Trim your To Do List!  Some things don’t need done at all.  They are just obsessive-compulsive self-imposed obligations.
 
Right now I am adding an activity that I consider a community service, and deleting some time-consuming activities on the computer.  I still spend too much time on the computer!
 
 
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Subject: [HomeSteadHeaven] 101 steps to a simpler life
 
Exhaustive live of helpful tips and suggestions. Read a few, do a few, and see the progress you make 🙂 Lisa NM
 
http://www..goedekers.com/blog/101-steps-simpler-life/

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