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When spiritual authority conflicts tear apart prayer groups

Our prayer group has been meeting for three years and two people are now convinced they receive direct revelations that contradict what the rest of us sense in our collective discernment. Every gathering has become a subtle power struggle over whose spiritual authority we trust and we're all exhausted by the tension.

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What we've seen

The delicate ecosystem of shared discernment fractures when individual claims to divine truth challenge the group's collective way of listening.

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