intentional living

INTENTIONAL LIVING

Six Preparation Questions

1. Personal Growth Plan

2. Spouse Support

3. Biblical Foundation

4. Apologetic Foundation

5. Philosophical Found.

6. Community Exegesis

Six Dream Dynamics

7. Your Mission

8. Your Values

9. Your Vision

10.Prayer Team

11.Funding Team

12.Startup Team

Six Gathering Strategies

13.Viral Evangelism

14.Lay Evangelism

15.Community Penetration

16.Sneak Previews

17.Small Groups

18.Marketing

Five Discipleship Stages

Win Build Equip Lead Send

Six Startup Ministries

25.Health System

26.Worship

27.Assimilation

28.Technology

29.Children

30.Intentional Living

Are You Starting To Feel Like This

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Video: Bad Day

Question

• How will you use intentional living to develop a realistic time line?

Planting = Roller Coaster

HIGHS LOWS

Elmer Towns

• “Getting A Church Started In The Face Of Insurmountable Obstacles With Limited Resources In Unlikely Circumstances.”

Key Scriptures

• Conversion Roller Coaster– Acts 9:19-30

• Cyprus Roller Coaster– Acts 13:4-12

• Pisidan Antioch– Acts 13:13, 42-52

• Iconium Roller Coaster– Acts 14:1-6

• Lystra Roller Coaster– Acts 14: 8-20

Planters Are Targets

• Church Planting Missionaries Suffer

• Sometimes the assaults are so insidious that they can only be attributed to the Evil one.– CP Movements, David

Garrison

Emotional Hits

• Dissonance– Growth– Comparison– Vision

• Money Problems

• Sheep Bites & Runaways

• The Crisis

Planting Landmines

• The beauty of church planting is that there isn’t anyone to tell us what to do; we have freedom.

• The pathology of church planting is that there isn’t anyone to tell us what to do, we have freedom to become abusers.

Unchecked Strength

• Planters … who have the ability to start churches from scratch also have some other abilities that can be misused: attractive personalities, relationship-building, empathy, and solid communication skills to name a few.

• Couple that with the fact that new churches exist to reach out to a hurting and needy world, and Satan has a pretty good opportunity to exploit us. The people we target to reach with the gospel come with enough baggage that, when joined with our own weaknesses, lead to powerful volatility.– Tom Nebel

Roller Coaster Antidote

Intentional Living

1. Annual Prayer Retreat

2. Monthly Refocusing

3. Coaching 5R Report

4. Prayer Letter

Dynamic Discipline

To man belong the plans of the heart, but from the Lord comes the reply of the tongue.

Proverbs 16:1

In his heart a man plans his course, but the Lord determines his steps.

Proverbs 16:9

You can make many plans, but the Lord's purpose will prevail.

Proverbs 19:21

1. Guard Your Heart

• Prov. 4:23- Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the well spring of life. Mt. 22:37

• Eph. 3:17- My Heart, Christ’s Home

• Sex, Money, & Power• 1 in 5 Pastors

– www.covenanteyes.com– www.promisekeepers.org

• Follow Christ (Mt. 4:19)

2. Minister From Your Strengths

• Intentional people understand how God has made them. They play to their strengths and find ways to shore up their weaknesses.

• Assessment

• Personal Growth Plan

3. Put In The Big Rocks

• Intentional living is about figuring out the big rocks. If you don’t put the big rocks in your jar … someone else will.

– Flow Out Mission-Vision

– KRA: Key Result Areas– Critical Milestones

Three Per Month

4. Connect Compass & Clock

• Compass: – Vision & Values

• Clock: – Appointments & Activities

• Compass Tool: Annual Planning Retreat

• Clock Tool: Monthly Personal Retreat Day

5. Develop A Rhythm

• Our planning does not yield lasting results because we lack a rhythm in our lives that keeps us honest, in alignment and focused on our priorities.– Daily Divert: Devotional Life– Weekly Withdraw: Sabbath– Monthly Maintain: PRD– Annual Abandon: 3 Day

Retreat

6. 5R Coaching

1. Relate

2. Reflect

3. Refocus

4. Resource

5. Review

Balanced Living

• Planters overestimate what they can accomplish in the short term.

• Planters underestimate what they can accomplish in the long term.

Intentional Living

1. Calendar your monthly personal retreat days.

2. Timeline: Put in the big rocks.

– Year one: 3 goals– Year two: 2 goals– Year three: 1 goal