{"id":41259,"date":"2017-05-03T17:00:20","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T21:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/nolongerquivering\/?p=41259"},"modified":"2017-05-03T09:19:11","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T13:19:11","slug":"answering-preparing-help-meet-wanting-mature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/nolongerquivering\/2017\/05\/answering-preparing-help-meet-wanting-mature\/","title":{"rendered":"Answering &#8216;Preparing To Be A Help Meet&#8217; &#8211; Wanting To Mature"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/188\/2017\/05\/Answering.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-41260\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-41260\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/188\/2017\/05\/Answering-300x192.jpg\" alt=\"Answering\" width=\"300\" height=\"192\"><\/a>Another installment of giving better answers to the questions asked at <a class=\"ext-link decorated-link\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/nogreaterjoy.org\/blogs\/preparingtobeahelpmeet\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-wpel-target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\">Debi Pearl\u2019s site message board for the book \u2018Preparing To Be A Help Meet\u2019.<\/a> Many young ladies ask questions on all sorts of different subjects brought up by the book. There was just one big problem, <span id=\"more-40935\"><\/span>many of the answers stray into either the outright bad and emotionally unhealthy to dangerous. Yes, typical Debi Pearl borderline abusive. Here\u2019s what we\u2019re going to be doing here at NLQ. Every week, once or twice a week, I\u2019ll be posting up one of the questions from the message board and ask you, our readers, to answer that poor soul\u2019s question in a way that is logical, rational and the best possible solution, in other words 180 degree turn from Debi and friends <span class=\"skimlinks-unlinked\">answers. As<\/span> always\u00a0 all spelling and grammar in the posting is unchanged from the original author.<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/nogreaterjoy.org\/blogs\/preparingtobeahelpmeet\/wanting-to-mature\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Wanting to mature<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>I am a younger teenager and I want to mature but don\u2019t really know how. any ideas on growing spiritually, physically, or mentally?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This poor teenager only got one answer and it was to listen to sermons and read her Bible. What advice would you give her?<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><em>Stay in touch! 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