Doing Justice and Loving Mercy: Compassion Ministries, Student Workbook, SW16

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D O I N G J U S T I C E A N D L O V I N G M E R C Y : C O M P A S S I O N M I N I S T R I E S

2. Don’t be too anxious about fruit; real fruit takes time.

a. 1 Cor. 3.6-7

b. 2 Cor. 3.4-5

C. Use the information to ask what God might be saying about the current effort; ascertain what the Lord, the Spirit, is saying to you all.

1. Stop the effort: end the activity for now.

2. Change the effort: adapt some of the things you’re doing .

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3. Increase the effort: keep doing what you are doing, and increase it.

4. Delegate the effort: turn over your work to somebody else.

D. Begin the cycle again.

V. Problems and Challenges

A. Problems with neighborhood outreach

1. Discouragement at little response