Nowhere is this seen more clearly than in the home. In the home, the trainer is no longer the ‘public Christian’, the ministry leader. The persona drops away. He becomes—indeed he is—the husband laughing with his wife, the father dealing with his daughter not eating her food, the cook enjoying his creative side, the homemaker fixing the tap, the exhausted man gazing blankly at the TV. He is living out life in the Spirit in the hardest context. And in the same way, when a wise trainer is in the home of the trainee he is also observing how the trainee listens respectfully to his wife, or ignores
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