Mike Hammer - Dillsburg

I can definitely appreciate Mike’s desire for people to have real authentic relationships with other believers within the church. I think that that is very important within discipling people. It is great to see churches look at these matters and not trying to always over –spiritualize things. And see the need for people’s lives to be changed and realizing the great impact that our early relationships with our parents and those who raised us have on our lives. It is important to look at the psychology of that. I think that it is important to look into our lives first and figure out our own issues before trying to help others and be in relationship with others. I can see this bridges program being extremely helpful for church leaders as well as for pre-marital counseling. Mike’s life is an example of how we need to work out these issues in our lives first before we try to lead others. But I can definitely appreciate his honesty while pastoring to go back and look deeper into those issues in his life that where there from before. And it does show that God can use every aspect of our lives to His glory. Even through our mistakes and life struggles we can be used to help others. God still uses broken, hurting people to help other hurting people as long as we can be honest with ourselves first. I think another thing Christian can struggle with as well is having a false idea of what humility is. We emphasize not being prideful so much and being humble, but we forget that we also need a correct view or our self and must not forget that we our created in the image of God.