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I'm Dalton, a member of the Paul Trip Ministries team.

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and the Paul Tripp app. This week, as we continue our series on discipleship, Paul wants to revisit

the word love again in the love, no, speak, do ministry model. Here's this week's Wednesday's work.

Over the last eight weeks, we've been examining a biblical model of discipleship that I call love, know, speak, do.

These are four essential elements or actions that you want to pursue simultaneously as you seek to function as God's instrument of change in another person's life.

To conclude the summer, at least summer according to the Northern Hemisphere calendar where I live,

I want to go through each element one more time. Love, know, speak, do, are simple one-syllable

words, but contained within love is another four-part model. Enter, incarnate, identify,

accept. Don't try saying that ten times quickly.

As you seek to love another brother or sister whom you are disciplining, you want to,

enter the person's struggles, incarnate the love of Christ,

identify with suffering, except with agenda.

Enter the person's struggles. Far too often in personal ministry, we are actually

impersonal. We focus on a problem and miss the person in the middle of it. The focus of God's

work of change is radical personal transformation. Of course, helping someone change their

situation, location, or environment may be occasionally necessary,

but even when it is, the deeper struggle of the heart is what God primarily calls you to help

the other person change.

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