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This book represents a significant departure from most contemporary writing about spiritual direction. While most writers focus on long-term relationships of guidance, specifically envisioning long listening sessions, Bidwell changes focus. Spiritual direction, he insists, typically requires intervention in a specific crisis or situation or question, is not formal, lasts fewer than five sessions,...

people initiate spiritual direction and what results they hope to see or what benefits they hope to attain. Without a clear picture of the directee’s goals or intentions for spiritual direction, the director cannot be certain what paths might contribute to the journey of spiritual direction. A goal orientation is nothing new for spiritual direction. This ministry has always been a teleological, or goal-oriented, activity. Typically, two goals predominate in spiritual direction: (1) identifying God’s
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