In a world that is distracted by #llamas and #TheDress, it's time for us to #getfocused! That's what #DiscoverDiscipline is all about. How do we live in a way that keeps eternity in mind and gets the most of out of life today?

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4. Step #1: Tell the Truth
Step #2: Get Past the Past
Step #3: Make Your Cents Make Sense
Step #4: Build a New Dream
Step #5: Discover Discipline

5. Discipline Not Desire
Determines Destiny

6. Do you not know that in a race all the
runners run, but only one gets the prize?
Run in such a way as to get the prize.
Everyone who competes in the games
goes into strict training.

7. They do it to get a crown that will not last,
but we do it to get a crown that will last
forever. Therefore I do not run like
someone running aimlessly; I do not fight
like a boxer beating the air.

8. No, I strike a blow to my body and make it
my slave so that after I have preached to
others, I myself will not be disqualified for
the prize. (NIV)
- 1 Corinthians 9:24-
27

9. Discovering Discipline means I
will:

10. Discovering Discipline means I
will:
1) Develop a Clear Mission

11. I have become all things to all
people so that by all possible
means I might save some.
- v. 22

12. To reach everyone I possibly
can with the gospel of Jesus
Christ, by being an excellent
_________.

13. Discovering Discipline means I
will:
1) Develop a Clear Mission
2) Eliminate Distractions

14. “I must preach the good news of the
kingdom of God to the other towns as
well; for I was sent for this purpose.”
- Luke 4:43

15. Everyone who competes in the
games goes into strict training. They
do it to get a crown that will not last,
but we do it to get a crown that will
last forever.
- v. 25

16. Therefore I do not run like someone
running aimlessly; I do not fight like a
boxer beating the air. No, I strike a blow to
my body and make it my slave so that
after I have preached to others, I myself
will not be disqualified for the prize.
- vv.
26-27

17. Discovering Discipline means I
will:
1) Develop a Clear Mission
2) Eliminate Distractions
3) Train my body for the task

18. For while we are still in this tent, we
groan, being burdened—not that we
would be unclothed, but that we
would be further clothed, so that what
is mortal may be swallowed up by
life.