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.
This is the second session of Dr. Christine Pohl’s June 2016 seminar, Cultivating Community and Worship: Practices that Define and Sustain Us at IWS.
Addressing the Difficulties and Strengthening the Practice of Gratitude [39:09] (Download)
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