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Beliefs about the world and other people that are built up from defective perceptions of reality...act like the body's immune system does with real viruses...though with a major difference. Those defective beliefs act as a barrier to immunize a person from objective facts that would actually cure the thought virus and delete it from your mental operating system.
The beliefs that come from a thinking virus actually shield you from useful contact with reality. And that is not a good thing for anyone...like a minister...who intervenes in other people's lives. And like any virus...mental viruses can infect the thinking of anyone...anywhere.
With our definition of ministry as...
you can see that religious formation of students for ministry is a religious activity... And in the example above...ministry got derailed because a thinking virus...that "boys will be boys"...led to producing pornographic films with ministry formation students. And this does not bring both the minister and the people closer to God.
To read other examples from the clinical record of thinking viruses that create serious boundary problems that interfere with the divine purpose and goal of ministry...click on the following links...
And the good news is that...unlike some physical viruses...thought viruses can be prevented and cured. We have all had the experience of changing our beliefs about people and experiences. And the defective beliefs that are symptoms of such thinking viruses can be changed as well.
And you can also download below the FREE Ministry Audit ebook that will get you up to speed quickly about what you are doing that is ministry and what is not ministry. And much of your ministry work will be helping people to recognize thought virus thinking that has its impact on their lives...and on their relationship to God. You may have questions or comments. (We especially like comments about how we can do things better.) If so...write to us. And also ...consider this...
From this thought viruses page you can... |
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