If we are entitled to everything, we are grateful for nothing! This clip is from Dr. Christine Pohl’s session on Hindrances to Gratitude in the seminar “Cultivating Community and Worship: Practices that Define and Sustain Us” at the Robert E. Webber Institute for Worship Studies in June of 2016.
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Listen to the entire session on Hindrances to Gratitude (Download audio) [39:09]
Overview: Gratitude is important to community, but we often encounter its deformations in the forms of entitlement, envy, and grumbling or complaint. These are community killers. Gratitude is undermined in other ways as well, and it is crucial to be intentional about how we can strengthen the individual and corporate practice.
Additional media from this seminar:
- Pohl Seminar Event Gallery
- Christine Pohl: Practices that Define and Sustain
- Christine Pohl: Gratitude
- Christine Pohl: Gratitude-Antidote to Spiritual Pornography
- Christine Pohl: Hindrances to Gratitude
- Christine Pohl: Entitlement and Grumbling
- Christine Pohl: Envy
- Christine Pohl: Fidelity
- Christine Pohl: Promises—Covenants or Contracts, Pt. 1
- Christine Pohl: Promises—Covenants or Contracts, Pt. 2
- Christine Pohl: Addressing the Difficulties of Promising
- Christine Pohl: Promising in a Culture of Open Options
- Christine Pohl: Promising and Obligation
- Christine Pohl: Broken Promises and Betrayal
- Christine Pohl: When Believers Devour
- Christine Pohl: Strengthening the Practice of Promising
- Christine Pohl: Truthfulness
- Christine Pohl: Self-Deception
- Christine Pohl: Truthful Communities
- Christine Pohl: Hospitality
- Christine Pohl: Who Is the Stranger?
- Christine Pohl: Challenges to Hospitality
- Christine Pohl: Hospitality As a Way of Life
- Christine Pohl: Hospitality and Social Ministry
- Christine Pohl Seminar Reflections