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Valley of Vision

LDP Leadership

× Kevin Peck× Email: kpeck@austinstone.org

× John Manning× Email: john.manning@

austinstone.org

× Rex Hamilton× Email: rex@austinstone.org

× Fabienne Harford

× Email: fabienne@austinstone.org

Resources

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Fall Calendar

  Theology Leadership9/3/14 Kickoff9/10/14 Christian Hedonism

9/17/14 Revelation & Inspiration Bible Study Methods

9/24/14 Incommunicable Attributes Bible Study Methods

10/1/14 Communicable Attributes Bible Study Methods10/8/14 Humanity Bible Study Methods10/15/14 Study Session Written Exam 110/22/14 Humanity Think/Feel/Do10/29/14 Sin Confession/Repentance11/5/14 Christology I Emotional Development11/12/14 Christology II Emotional Development11/19/14 Study Session Written Exam 211/26/14 Off for Thanksgiving12/3/14 Leadership in the Home12/10/14 Oral Exams

Spring Calendar

  Theology Leadership1/14/15 Discipleship of the Whole Man1/21/15 Pneumatology Spiritual Disciplines

1/28/15 Unconditional Election Q&A Election2/4/15 Order of Salvation I Order of Salvation II2/11/15 Providence Providence Q & A2/18/15 Global Church Spiritual Gifts2/25/15 Local Church Church Leadership3/4/15 God’s Love for the Nations3/11/15 Study Session Written Exam 33/18/15 Off for Spring Break3/25/15 Heaven Culture4/1/15 MC Training: Launching & Evangelism4/8/15 Leadership Panel4/15/15 Study Session Oral Exam 24/22/15 Oral Exams

4/29/15 MDP Graduation

LDP Commitments

× Wednesday Nights

× Saturday All Days

× Cohort Time

× LTG

× Written/Oral Examinations

× Bible Reading Plan

× Systematic Reading

× Study Guides

Other Items

× Kindle books

× YUD

× Vanilla Orchid

× Seminary Credit

LDP 2014-2015Personality & Communication

Key Concepts of YUDMoving towards people

Moving internally

HarmonizerCatalyzer Energizer

PersisterAchiever Dreamer

Externally Motivated (respond to outside stimulus)

Internally Motivated(respond to internal stimulus/receive through internal grid)

Catalyzer EnergizerDreamer

HarmonizerPersisterAchiever

ACTIVITY

Share with your group your ‘house’.

Acts 17:24-25

The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven

and earth, does not live in temples made by man, nor is he served by

human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all

mankind life and breath and everything.

Acts 17:28

For ‘In him we live and move and have our being’.

Isaiah 43:7

Everyone who is called by my name,whom I created for my glory,

whom I formed and made.

ACTIVITY

× Which parts of God’s personality do you tend to emphasize more?

× Which parts of Him do you tend to neglect and how do you see this play out in your relationship with Him?

1 Corinthians 12:12-26

[12] For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. [13] For in

one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink

of one Spirit. [14] For the body does not consist of one member but of many. [15] If the foot should say,

“Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the

body.

1 Corinthians 12:12-26

[16] And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not

make it any less a part of the body. [17] If the whole body were an eye, where would be the sense of

hearing? If the whole body were an ear, where would be the sense of smell? [18] But as it is, God arranged

the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose. “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of

the body.

1 Corinthians 12:12-26

[19] If all were a single member, where would the body be? [20] As it is, there are many parts, yet one

body.[21] The eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need

of you,” nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.” ” [22] On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, [23]

and on those parts of the body that we think less honorable we bestow the greater honor, and our

unpresentable parts are treated with greater modesty,

1 Corinthians 12:12-26

[24] which our more presentable parts do not require. But God has so composed the body, giving greater honor to the part that lacked it, [25] that there may be no division in the body, but that the

members may have the same care for one another. [26] If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one

member is honored, all rejoice together.

ACTIVITY

× Which personality types or parts of the body do you look at as more valuable and which types weaker?  

× How has that played out in the kind of community you have pursued? 

Hebrews 10:24-25

24 And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works,

25 not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging

one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.

Encouraging One Another

Our attitudes and actions toward one another should be a result of the gospel in our lives.

You must intentionally consider the unique make-up and needs of others.

• How do they receive encouragement?• What are their needs and desires?• How do they communicate?

Achiever Persister Harmonizer Dreamer Catalyzer Energizer

• Respect their time

• Praise them for a job well done

• Give them room to run

• Respect their value system

• Include them in decision-making

• Make them feel useful for the bigger cause

• Show them they are valued for who they are specifically

• Create warm and inviting environments for them

• Speak individual words of affirmation

• Allow (healthy) solitude

• Give them space to reflect and think

• Delegate projects clearly and in a way that shows value

• Create exciting opportunities

• Encourage their (crazy) ideas

• Allow them to dream about ‘what could be’

• Allow them to play before working

• Make interaction playful and non-threatening

• Appreciate unique expression

ACTIVITY

× Which personality type(s) encouragement style(s) did you identify with the most?  

× What is the encouragement style you tend towards when encouraging others?  

TODD’S CONFLICT VERSES

Share about some recent conflict that you have experienced that might be

connected to personality and communication.  What are some things

you want your cohort to know about how you handle conflict?

ACTIVITY

× Share about some recent conflict that you have experienced that might be connected to personality and communication.  

× What are some things you want your cohort to know about how you handle conflict?

Hebrews 3:12-14

Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart,

leading you to fall away from the living God. But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none

of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. For we have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our

original confidence firm to the end.

Tools for Exhorting

× Identify places places where others are hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

× Have relational integrity in your communication

× Have compassion.

× Have humility. Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience. For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart. And no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account. (Hebrews 4:11-13 ESV)

× Redefine success.

Responding to Exhortation

× Listen and pray.

× Press into the Gospel.

× Ask questions and seek to learn.

× Encourage.

× Be encouraged.

ACTIVITY

× Which personality type(s) correction tendencies did you relate to?  

× How do you prefer to receive correction?  

Covenant Letter

× Write two goals for yourself for this year.  Make one in the area you feel strongest, which is probably what you’re most excited about anyway.  And then write one in the area you feel the weakest.  Dream big!  What do you want God to do this year? (Try to be specific)

× Complete the rest of the covenant letter

× Leave memorization plan blank for now (we will talk about this on Wednesday)

Covenant Letter

× As a group, talk through what it will look like to persevere each other this year. Leaders share your goals and structure for that.

× Use the next page to write down each person’s goals and commitments

× Commit to pray for and exhort each other throughout the year

Homework

× Bible Reading: FAR MORE

× Systematic Reading: Chs. 1-2

× Miscellaneous: Pre-assessment

Cleanup

× Put all supplies in your toolbox

× Fold tablecloth

× Bring your toolbox and tablecloth to the back left corner

× Bring any extra materials (books, binders, water bottles, bags) to the back left corner

× Put up all tables and chairs