The Elders' Book of Cherishing

<p>I say again that shepherding is the all-inclusive care that includes two things: the side of cherishing and the side of nourishing. Cherishing is in His humanity; nourishing is in His divinity. Cherishing is just to warm up someone to make them happy to make them joyful...By then they would be ready for any message you want to give them. Don't despise cherishing. I feel actually in the Lord's move we are rather short of shepherding. This is why in many places the feeling is cold the atmosphere is icy the relationship is distant in many churches. It is not warm it is not ardent it is not hot it is not burning. Dear saints don't try to pray and then the Spirit comes down and we will all be hot. Start to care and start to warm up. I don't mean this in a natural way. We have to do this in the humanity of Christ which is altogether in resurrection and not in the natural man. Nevertheless Christ in resurrection is not cold. Minoru (1998 Atlanta Conf.)</p>