Second Dialogue

After the 5th session on "The Christian Family", the discussion group leaders once again meet individually with each of the members of their group. These meetings should be held prior to the next session (Empowerment by the Holy Spirit).

The primary purpose of this individual meeting is to help the participant prepare for the prayer session where the participant is prayed with for a renewed outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Fondly called "Baptism in the Holy Spirit" many years ago, this session sometimes causes unclarity in the mind of the participant. The discussion group leader will try to clear up any question concerning this. The meeting also serves to give encouragement and support to the participant and to find out specific areas where he/she needs to be strengthened and prayed for.

(Note: When a person is baptized as a Catholic, he/she receives the Holy Spirit. The CLP is pray-over session is NOT a baptism but is an empowerment or stirring up of the Gifts of the Holy Spirit.)

These individual meetings should be held as early as possible during the week so that the participant may have enough time after this meeting to adequately prepare himself/herself for the prayer session. Don't wait till the last minute!

Reminders:

• The principle of confidentiality is still very much in force. Keep to yourself whatever information is brought out, except what you cannot handle, in which case you should bring the same to the team leader. Any discussion of serious problems should be only with the team leader (or if necessary with the supervising Unit Head or the Chapter Head), and should not be specifically taken up during the team meeting. The team meeting is a time of sharing in general, to see where people are at. Always avoid gossip, slander, or any wrong way of speaking about any participant.
  
  

• Inform the team leader immediately of any problem you cannot handle or of any obstacle to being prayed with for the baptism in the Holy Spirit. Don't wait till prior to the prayer session itself. 

Guide Questions for the Meeting:

• Start with a prayer. Foster an atmosphere of concern, friendliness and informality.
  
  

• Find out if there are any questions regarding what has transpired in the program or if there are any problem areas. Discuss these.
  
  

• If the participant has any involvement in the occult and the like (fortune telling, card reading, spirit of the glass, etc.), which may or may not have been brought out in the first individual meeting, lead the participant to renounce verbally this involvement.
  
  

• Make sure that any serious wrongdoing which the participant disclosed during your first individual meeting is no longer present in his/her life. Find out if there are other Areas of wrongdoing which the participant has not disclosed.
  
  

• Find out if there are other obstacles to the full release of the Spirit in his/her life. Check areas of unforgiveness, resentments, hatred, bitterness, etc. Lead the participant to forgive the cause(s) of all these negative emotions. Pray for a repentant and forgiving heart.
  
  

• Find out if the participant has had any traumatic experiences, so that you can pray for healing of memories during the prayer session.
  
  

• Find out if there are other areas of concern or difficulties that the participant would like to share with you.
  
  

• Ask if the participant has any prayer intention, or any specific areas that he/she would want to pray for during the pray-over (empowerment of the Holy Spirit).
  
  

• Check the participant's understanding of Gifts of the Holy Spirit. (If no or little idea, it's okay.) Let him/her know that the next session is Talk 6: Empowered by the Holy Spirit. This discusses/explains the Gifts of the Holy Spirit. During the talk, pray for which Gifts he/she will ask from the Holy Spirit. Before the actual pray-over, inform the facilitator which Gifts are desired. These will be included in the pray-over -- meaning, the facilitator (and/or another brother/sisters) will say intercessory prayers for the participant. This includes praying for the Gifts.
  
  

• Inform the participant that all participants will be invited to join CFC at the last CLP session. Encourage him/her to discuss with his/her spouse and pray together for discernment or spiritual guidance. More information about the CFC will be discussed in Session 7: Growing in the Spirit.
  
  

• Encourage the participant (if Catholic) to receive the Sacrament of Reconciliation, to go to Mass and receive Holy Communion, and to pray before the pray-over session (Talk 6: Empowered by the Holy Spirit).
  
  

• Pray together at the end of the meeting.