Are Changes Required in the Life Situation of God's Teachers? · Mt.9

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v1.0 · Course text used under CIMS license

Manual for Teachers

Contents

Opening

Introduction

Mt.In

Question 1

Who Are God's Teachers?

Mt.1

Question 2

Who Are Their Pupils?

Mt.2

Question 3

What are the Levels of Teaching?

Mt.3

Question 4

What Are the Characteristics of God's Teachers?

Mt.4

Question 5

How is Healing Accomplished?

Mt.5

Question 6

Is Healing Certain?

Mt.6

Question 7

Should Healing Be Repeated?

Mt.7

Question 8

How Can the Perception of Order of Difficulties Be Avoided?

Mt.8

Question 9

Are Changes Required in the Life Situation of God's Teachers?

Mt.9

Question 10

How Is Judgment Relinquished?

Mt.10

Question 11

How Is Peace Possible in this World?

Mt.11

Question 12

How Many Teachers of God Are Needed to Save the World?

Mt.12

Question 13

What Is the Real Meaning of Sacrifice?

Mt.13

Question 14

How Will the World End?

Mt.14

Question 15

Is Each One to Be Judged in the End?

Mt.15

Question 16

How Should the Teacher of God Spend His Day?

Mt.16

Question 17

How do God's Teachers Deal With Their Pupils' Thoughts of Magic?

Mt.17

Question 18

How Is Correction Made?

Mt.18

Question 19

What Is Justice?

Mt.19

Question 20

What Is the Peace of God?

Mt.20

Question 21

What Is the Role of Words in Healing?

Mt.21

Question 22

How Are Healing and Atonement Related?

Mt.22

Question 23

Does Jesus Have a Special Place in Healing?

Mt.23

Question 24

Is Reincarnation True?

Mt.24

Question 25

Are "Psychic" Powers Desirable?

Mt.25

Question 26

Can God Be Reached Directly?

Mt.26

Question 27

What Is Death?

Mt.27

Question 28

What Is the Resurrection?

Mt.28

Question 29

As For the Rest

Mt.29

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Question 9

Are Changes Required in the Life Situation of God's Teachers?

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1Changes are required in the minds of God's teachers. This may or may not involve changes in the external situation. Remember that no one is where he is by accident, and chance plays no part in God's plan. It is most unlikely that changes in his attitudes would not be the first step in the newly-made teacher of God's training. There is however no set pattern, since training is always highly individualized. There are those who are called upon to change their life situation almost immediately, but these are generally special cases. By far the majority are given a slowly-evolving training program in which as many previous mistakes as possible are corrected. Relationships in particular must be properly perceived and all dark cornerstones of unforgiveness removed. Otherwise, the old thought-system still has a basis for return.

2As the teacher of God advances in his training, he learns one lesson with increasing thoroughness. He does not make his own decisions; he asks his Teacher for His answer, and it is this he follows as his guide for action. This becomes easier and easier as the teacher of God learns to give up his own judgment. The giving up of judgment, the obvious prerequisite for hearing God's Voice, is usually a fairly slow process, not because it is difficult, but because it is apt to be perceived as personally insulting. The world's training is directed toward achieving a goal in direct opposition to that of our curriculum. The world trains for reliance on one's judgment as the criterion for maturity and strength. Our curriculum trains for the relinquishment of judgment as the necessary condition of salvation.