This session looks at how personal style impacts spiritual formation. It also explores the motivation behind practicing spiritual disciplines. Watch the video at http://www.stevethomason.net/spiritual-formation/grace/overflow-session-2/

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Welcome to
Sunday Evenings @
Grace

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Week Two
Where Am I Going?

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This Course is a
Work-in-Progress
We need to spend more time on the
questions Where Am I? and Where Am I
Going?
before we can talk about the practices it
takes to “get there.”

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Review from Last Week

5. Jesus Made it Simple
Love God
Love Neighbor

6. Three Metaphors for
Spiritual Formation
S The Journey
S The Vine S The Network

7. Three Questions for the
Journey
1. Where Am I?
2. Where Am I Going?
3. How Will I Get There?

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Where Am I?

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A Spiritual GPS
What is my Worldview
What is my Style
What is my Baggage

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What is My Style?

11. Personality Types
Myers-Briggs Type
The Enneagram

12. Mind – Spirit – Body

13. Thinkers–Feelers–Doers

14. Table Discussion
1. Imagine there is a house on fire and
three people are standing across the
street from it. One person is a
Thinker, one is a Feeler, one is a
Doer. How do you think each person
might initially respond to the fire?
2. How might personal style impact the way people
approach relationships? How have you seen this play out
in your life?
3. How might personal style impact how we connect
with God?

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What is My Baggage?

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What Has a Hold on You?
One of the first things Jesus did
in his ministry was to heal the
sick and set people free from
demons.
What has got a hold on you that
keeps you from experiencing the
love of God and others?

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Where Am
I Going?

18. The Kingdom of Heaven…
The kingdom of heaven is like treasure
hidden in a field, which someone found
and hid; then in his joy he goes and sells
all that he has and buys that field.
- Jesus in Matthew 13:44 (NRSV)

19. Work as a table and write a travel ad for what you think
this journey of spiritual formation is all about.
Use the following passages to help in your discussion:
Matthew 4:17
John 10:7-10
John 17:1-3
Matthew 28:18-20
Colossians 2:6-7
What is the point of this
journey?

20. We are created
by
the community of
the Triune God
Creator
Redeemer
Sustainer
for
community with
all things.

21. We are created
by
the community of
the Triune God
Creator
Redeemer
Sustainer
for
community with
all things.

22. The MeWe Principle

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No Two Journeys
are the Same

24. Phases of the Journey
• Encounter
with TRUTH
- about God,
Self, the
Universe…
• Awareness
• Invitation to
Change
Awakening Purgation Illumination
• Battle against
Sin
• Old Self vs.
New Self
• Spiritual
Disciplines
most important
• Bearing fruit
• “good works”
come naturally
• Aware of God in
everything
• Experience
gratification
• Quiet peace
• No need for
human
reinforcement
or approval
• Loss of Self
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WITH
GOD
WALKING
WITH
GOD
OBEDIENCE
TO
GOD
ATTRACTION
TO
GOD
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Union

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Next Week:
How Will We Get There?