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c) Church leaders must be able to help Christians when they suffer from “ soul sickness ” and “ soul snares ” (Ps 127:4). Those who suffer from soul sickness and soul snares may suffer from the consequences of personal sin, corporate sin, or simply from living in a fallen and broken world (e.g. Ps 107). 11

2) Soul Work: the personal work of watering, weeding, pruning, and fertilizing the garden of one’s own soul.

3) Soul Care: the pastoral work of nurturing growth another’s friendship with God.

c. “Across many cultures and centuries”

1) The test of cross-cultural fruitfulness. Spiritual classics have helped to God’s people in many different cultures.

2) Spiritual classics have helped believers in many different time periods.

3) Spiritual classics pass the test of “catholicity” and are gifts to the church as a whole.

3. Sacred Roots Spiritual Classics (SRSC). The Sacred Roots Spiritual Classics are a collection of sixteen spiritual classics divided into four subject areas: Biblical Studies, Theology and Ethics, Christian Ministry, and Global Mission.

a. All SRSCs have four subject areas ; the same as those covered by TUMI’s sixteen-module Capstone Curriculum.

b. SRSCs have eight sections like Capstone Modules’ eight sections.

c. SRSCs have been edited by leading evangelical scholars from schools like Biola University, Dallas Theological Seminary, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Yale University, Taylor University, and others.

11 For more on soul sickness see especially Gregory the Great, The Book of Pastoral Rule , trans. George Demacopoulos (Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2007).