All stages of spiritual growth have their potholes.
I just want to be prepared for them before they appear!
Maybe we need a Spiritual Pothole Loss Apprehension Team (SPLAT)! They would go around making sure they inform us of upcoming potholes. The team would have Prophets, Apostles, Leaders and Spiritual directors (PALS) to help us out. Decision Enhancement Nobles Of Magnitudinally Immense Nobility And Totally Intense Organizational Nature (DENOMINATION) would oversee the project.
Anything else we need to add???
I personally would like to have a splat team on hand. It just might save a few of the valleys. But I wonder, would I listen? I think that the gift of encouragement could prevent a few of the potholes.
Sounds like if the church worked the way it was intended to work, the pavement would be freer of many of the potholes, and we would be able to avoid more of them just because of working together and seeing ourselves on that road as part of team.
MaryAnne