Mindy Caliguire is a main voice within the area of Christian spiritual formation. She writes with readability and ardour. In her book STIR: spiritual Transformation in Relationships, Caliguire helps us to apprehend three fundamental elements inside the spiritual adventure that could assist church leaders assume thru how we create contexts in which human beings flow in the direction of maturity in Christ.

Caliguire identifies 3 awesome phases as we develop: getting to know collectively, travelling together, and Following collectively. within the first degree, we find out the fundamentals of the Christian faith. We analyze the Bible, collect a theological vocabulary, and are taught quite simple practices, which include prayer. We set up relationships with others which can be pretty directive--we rely on others to expose us the manner, pointing us to Christ. As those just starting, we want a basis this is solid and reliable. We need to analyze.

At each stage, Caliguire helps church leaders to become aware of where we would find ourselves, and the way to interrupt via while we feel caught. She describes what someone ministering in each degree would possibly own in phrases of giftedness, the make-up in their man or woman, and what their next steps is probably. Caliguire's version is meant to establish a body for a church ministry, calling humans within that ministry to discover wherein they may be on the adventure, and to find an area in which they're challenged to breakthrough as they retain to follow Christ. The entire version, being relational, calls for no longer handiest individuals, however leaders.