Why The Soul Renovation Project for Spiritual Direction?
Spiritual direction can provide care and guidance for you with:
Experiencing union with God and His love for you • Personal and relational difficulties • Stress and discouragement • Family concerns • Discerning God’s leading • Becoming an Apprentice of Jesus • Navigating dry seasons in your walk on the Path of Jesus • Effectiveness in your ministry or work • As a child of your Heavenly Father, you have been given the Holy Spirit as a guide and comfort—and a spiritual director can help you experience the Spirit’s presence and encouragement in many ways.
At The Soul Renovation Project our top priority is to guide others into the practices and rhythms that will flow naturally out of the lives of those who apprentice Jesus.
At The Soul Renovation Project our top priority is to guide others into the practices and rhythms that will flow naturally out of the lives of those who apprentice Jesus.
How Can Spiritual Direction Help You?
A Spiritual Director offers you the opportunity to be heard we specialize in listening and reflecting Jesus’ love and empathy for others to help you experience God and follow the Spirit’s leading in your daily life, relationships, work, and prayers. In fact, the real director of your spiritual direction process is not the person hosting the conversation, it’s the Holy Spirit. We simply serve as an ambassador of the Spirit by ministering God’s continual friendship to you. 2 Cor. 5:20. Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.
What Happens in a Spiritual Direction Session?
The format of spiritual direction sessions is not a fixed program–it’s fluid and customized to meet your individual needs. The goal of each meeting is to foster a healthy and supportive setting for you to explore and discover greater intimacy with Jesus and love for God and others.
Here are some general guidelines for a “typical” session in spiritual direction.
How Do I Meet with a Spiritual Director?
Sessions can be conducted at a time that’s convenient for you through video conferencing (Zoom), or scheduling a face to face meeting, or phone conversation. It can be truly remarkable experience as the Spirit of Jesus draws the director and client together over diverse geographic areas and time zones–truly God knows no bounds!
What Should I Expect in My Session?
Spiritual direction sessions may open with conversation, prayer, or a brief time of being quiet in God’s presence, depending on your comfort and desires. It is helpful for you and your director to take a moment to “set apart” your time together from the busyness of your day. For the majority of the session, you can share important life experiences related to your concerns and relationship with God. Your spiritual director will listen to you with empathy and ask clarifying questions to guide your thinking, prayers, and steps. You will learn to discern God’s presence and leading by exploring those areas of your life that give you joy and those that may bother or trouble you. Before the end of the session, your director may recommend resources or spiritual discipline practices for you to consider exploring. Finally, your spiritual director will conclude the session by praying blessing over you and releasing the holy Spirit to begin a new work in you.
What Do I Talk About?
One of the foundational spiritual direction questions for the director's is to ask, “How have you been experiencing God’s presence?” We would suggest that an even better spiritual direction question is simply, “What is bothering you?” That guards against the conversation being “spiritual” in an idealistic or intellectual way and promotes it being real and authentic to the client’s actual life. Paul wrote, “Rejoice with those who rejoice and mourn with those who mourn” (Rom 12:15). That’s wording for the empathy that invites the real talk that is the heart of a great spiritual direction relationships.
Here are some general guidelines for a “typical” session in spiritual direction.
How Do I Meet with a Spiritual Director?
Sessions can be conducted at a time that’s convenient for you through video conferencing (Zoom), or scheduling a face to face meeting, or phone conversation. It can be truly remarkable experience as the Spirit of Jesus draws the director and client together over diverse geographic areas and time zones–truly God knows no bounds!
What Should I Expect in My Session?
Spiritual direction sessions may open with conversation, prayer, or a brief time of being quiet in God’s presence, depending on your comfort and desires. It is helpful for you and your director to take a moment to “set apart” your time together from the busyness of your day. For the majority of the session, you can share important life experiences related to your concerns and relationship with God. Your spiritual director will listen to you with empathy and ask clarifying questions to guide your thinking, prayers, and steps. You will learn to discern God’s presence and leading by exploring those areas of your life that give you joy and those that may bother or trouble you. Before the end of the session, your director may recommend resources or spiritual discipline practices for you to consider exploring. Finally, your spiritual director will conclude the session by praying blessing over you and releasing the holy Spirit to begin a new work in you.
What Do I Talk About?
One of the foundational spiritual direction questions for the director's is to ask, “How have you been experiencing God’s presence?” We would suggest that an even better spiritual direction question is simply, “What is bothering you?” That guards against the conversation being “spiritual” in an idealistic or intellectual way and promotes it being real and authentic to the client’s actual life. Paul wrote, “Rejoice with those who rejoice and mourn with those who mourn” (Rom 12:15). That’s wording for the empathy that invites the real talk that is the heart of a great spiritual direction relationships.
Getting started!
If you sense the need to be heard, known, encouraged in your spiritual growth and loved by a spiritual companion who will reflect the workings of the Spirit of Jesus in your life, take the first step by connecting with The Soul Renovation Project.
Contact us at 541-621-8814 or email us at jrfairrington@gmail.com
Contact us at 541-621-8814 or email us at jrfairrington@gmail.com
