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[25]Robert Taibbi, “The Give-and-Take of Criticism,” Current Health 2, A Weekly Reader Publication 19 (April 1993): 19; [database on-line]; available from Infotrac, http.://www.cbc.ag.edu; Internet; accessed 3 March 2005.
[26]McNeal, 158-9.
[27]Diehm, 94, 102.
[28]Ibid., 107.
[29]Spurgeon, 321.
[30]Carnegie, 197.
[31]Diehm, 82.
[32]Marshall Shelley, Well-Intentioned Dragons: Ministering to Problem People in the Church (Carol Stream, Ill.: Word, 1985), 61.
[33]All scriptural quotations are from the New International Version of the Bible.
[34]McNeal, 161-2.
[35]Leanne Payne, “Prayer When They Slander You: How to Call Heavenly Reinforcements for Your Earthly Battle,” Leadership 19 (Spring 1998): 50.
[36]Trevor Throness, “Handling Criticism,” Group 24 (September 1998): 109.
[37]Fred Smith, “The Care and Feeding of Critics: How to Feed the Hand That Bites You,” Leadership 16 (Winter 1995): 32.
[38]Anderson, 30.
[39]Alice Smith, “How to Respond When You Are Spiritually Attacked,” Charisma (July 1999): 81.
[40]Walt Mueller, “How to Handle Flak: Responding with Grace When You’re Criticized for Leaving the Holy Huddle,” Discipleship Journal 21 (March 2001): 46.
[41]Ben Patterson, “Wiring Yourself for Lightning: When You’re the Church Lightning Rod, You Have to Be Well Grounded,” Leadership 14 (Spring 1993): 72-5.
[42]Jim Abrahamson, “Hearing God When a Critic Speaks: Turning Negative Comments into a Constructive Expensive,” Leadership 19 (Fall 1998): 87-8.
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