This is a discussion guide I used at a Single's Conference at Christian Stronghold Church on May 23, 2009. Hope you find it helpful and please do contact me if you are interested in such workshops.

1. Making Your “Life
Mission” Plans
 Why Care About Life
Mission?
 3 Pillars of Mission
 Talents of Delight
 Place & Setting of Appeal
 Purpose to Partner with
God & Others
 Assessing your Mission
 Next Steps
 Q&A
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2. Why Care About Life
Mission?
 God has plans for our life
 Jer. 29.11
 We are commanded to serve &
love: Matt. 22.36-40
 God
 Neighbor (Family,
Community, Society)
 Enemy
 More control of time & resources
than marrieds so don’t waste it
 Service in Area of Mission =
quality & quantity of life
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3. 3 Pillars of Life Mission
 Toexercise that talent
you most delight in
 In
the places and
settings which God has
caused to appeal to you
 For
the purposes God
most needs to have
done in the world
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4. Talent of Delight
 Talents
 Natural & spiritual gifts,
 cultivated skills,
 learned knowledge,
 of Delight
 naturalaptitude
 gives deep satisfaction
 near-perfect
performance
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5. Places & Settings of
Appeal
 Physical or mental work
 Indoor or outdoor work
 Climate: warm, temperate,
cold
 Single or multi-culture
 Variety & Change or not
 Making things or people
 Risk: hi or low
 Working alone or in groups
 starting or maintaining
(managing)
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6. Places & Settings of
Appeal (cont’d)
 Researching or
Implementing
 Details or on big picture
 Science or art focus
 Lots of interruptions or not
 Objective or subjective
measure of success
 Pace: fast or slow
 Work & Play: the same or
different
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7. Purposes & Needs
 God partners with people
to achieve His purposes
 Clues to Purpose
 personal trauma
 particularly offensive evil
 area of deep experience,
knowledge & interest
 issue that align with/
offends values
 point of resonant change
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8. Assessments for
Discovering Mission
 Who I am?
 Interests
 Personality (
 Values
 What I Think & Feel?
 Passion
 Priorities
 What I Can & Like Doing?
 Learning Styles
 Life Narratives
 Areas of Service
 Barriers
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9. Next Steps
 Recommit to service
 Adopt accountability partners
 Assess & observe the Pillars
of your Mission
 Live the priorities & values
that allow you to achieve your
mission
 Plan for overcoming barriers
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10. Further Reading
 7 Habits of Highly Effective
People - Covey
 Getting Things Done - Allen
 The Power of Full
Engagement - Loehr
 What Color Is Your
Parachute? - Bolle
 www.wiseworking.com
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