Walking with Others – Stage 3 Full Set

Living into Community: Cultivating Practices That Sustain Us by Christine D. Pohl, is part of the Walking with Others Stage 3 process.

Every church, every organization, has experienced them: betrayal, deception, grumbling, envy, exclusion. They make life together difficult and prevent congregations from developing the skills, virtues, and practices they need to nurture sturdy, life-giving communities.

In Living into Community Christine Pohl explores four specific Christian practices -- gratitude, promise-keeping, truth-telling, and hospitality -- that can counteract those destructive forces and help churches and individuals build and sustain vibrant communities. Drawing on a wealth of personal and professional experience and interacting with the biblical, historical, and moral traditions, Pohl thoughtfully discusses each practice, including its possible complications and deformations, and points to how these essential practices can be better cultivated within communities and families.

In Walking with Others Stage 3: A Leadership of Companionship,  we see the Christian life is a relational way of life that is caught as well as taught interpersonally, life-upon-life. Beyond simply telling people how to live, we can provide a mentoring attention and presence in our contexts that actually helps others discover more deeply who God is, who they are, and what God wants them to be up to in their community and in the world. (Seven sessions)

A prerequisite for Walking with Others is The Journey and A Way of Life. This is just the Stage 3 manual of the Walking with Others process and does not include Living into Community for the full Walking with Others experience.