The Tent: A safe place for shepherds to reflect together
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joonoh
Joined: 20 Aug 2019 Posts: 5
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Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2020 12:16 pm Post subject: Highly-controlled with authoritarian rule generation |
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I had the privilege to shepherd teenagers and twenty years olds in a mega church setting for 15 years.
Personal encounters seem to show certain labels about this y-alpha generation true, such as negation of authority as a emotional and spiritual reflex action and acceptance of universalism with supernal moral valued easily over the Christian values that most of them were brought up in.
I wonder if the causal circumstances for these two characteristics could be introjection as self defense mechanism.
Self defense mechanism needed due to the personal experience or transferential experience of abuse of authority and the control.
Control in the form of manipulation always negates the true sense of choices.
When true agency is negated through authority and through trusted authority, then, negation of authority would naturally be the more attractive (though unhealthy) method to deal with the pain.
Praying to be the shepherd that heals through authority and praying for the Holy Spirit to give the regeneration and renewal to our next generation. |
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