It’s better to think of your priest not as a spiritual father along the monastic lines but as a coach.
Lies We Tell Ourselves #8: “Well, all I really need to do is be obedient to my priest!
...in the hands of an inexperienced or ill-prepared priest, obedience is a recipe for great and lasting harm for the layperson, the parish and the priest himself
Remembering God
...how many of our neighbors live not such much indifferent to God as unaware of His presence in their lives? As a consequence, they never know that they are loved by the Creator of the Universe?
Lies We Tell Ourselves #7: “But, we called to interiorized monasticism!”
...we corrupt families and parishes, when we make monastic life the model for our life in Christ.
Lies We Tell Ourselves #6: “The Orthodox Understanding of Salvation is Therapeutic Not Legalistic!”
Orthodox Christians tend to overemphasize the therapeutic nature of salvation at the expense of our own moral and legal tradition.