More on “Pathways” April 4, 2007
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I was thinking on the way home today about the previous post. I dug through my notebook from KBM and found the section on “pathways.” What I forgot to mention is that it is a book by Gary Chapman called Sacred Pathways. Here are the nine pathways:
Naturalist, Sensate, Traditionalist, Ascetic, Activist, Caregiver, Enthusiast, Contemplative, Intellectual
Ron (the guy who taught the class) gave biblical examples of some of the pathways. I laughed tonight when I saw that he listed Mordeci (See the book of Esther) and Jesus under the caregiver pathway. Caregivers love God by loving others.
“Pathways” April 3, 2007
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I’ve wanted to post for some time now about the Avenues. The “Avenues” is a term I made up to describe how God teaches me things. Primarily this occurs from processing the things I’ve read. The mechanism is often visual or auditory In other words, sometimes I learn through actual direct application and other times it doesn’t take me physically doing an act, all it takes is seeing or hearing someone or something performing some sort of act to make the connection. I don’t expect this to make sense for everyone it just seems to me one of the main ways by which I walk the avenues. I remember one time when I was at a Disciple Now weekend in Georgia telling my group that “we all connect in different ways,” which was a modified short version summary of the class I had in Colorado called “Pathways with God.” For some it happens through nature, for others it might be through people. I think an argument could be made that we “connect” in everyway not just one or two. However, I do think that there are individual ways in which the frequency is higher and clearer. Again this is not to say that we should only pursue the clearer channel, but perhaps in doing so the resulting growth helps to make the other “pathways” straight and wide.
