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Session One: Introduction to CommunityBig Idea: How does Life Story fit within our vision of spiritual formation.
Pay attention to: • Knowing God more deeply• Knowing ourselves more deeply• Knowing one another more deeply
Session Two: God’s Authorship
Big Idea: How do I make sense of God’s sovereign authorship of my story in light of the reality of pain and failure.
Pay attention to: • The temptation to call evil good• The temptation to blame God• This is NOT meant to be a theological debate.
Session Three: Experiences &
RelationshipsBig Idea: The past is neither irrelevant to nor determinative of the present and the future
Pay attention to: • Paul’s perspective on his past
Session Four: Formative Elements and ThemesBig Idea: Our experiences and relationships have formed us deeply.
Pay attention to: • One of the most significant dimensions of Life Story is the emergence of a theme or themes• Meaning & Purpose, Faith Points, Memorial Stones
Session Five: Telling Our StoriesBig Idea: Spiritual community develops as we tell our stories well and listen to one another well.
Pay attention to: • Crabb and Allender’s three principles of encouragement
Session Eleven: Knowing & Being KnownBig Idea: Reflecting the entire Life Story process in light of the stated objectives from Session One.
Pay attention to: • Knowing God more deeply• Knowing ourselves more deeply• Knowing one another more deeply
Session Twelve: Turning Toward IntegrityBig Idea: Connecting where we’ve been in the first two semesters with where we’re going in the third.
Pay attention to: • Temptation to draw back out of fear of exposure• Temptation to compare• Struggle to stay connected over the summer
Identify Themes in Your Story
• A theme is a recurring idea in your story
• A theme is a descriptive “meaning statement” that weaves together the elements of your story.
• A theme places the elements of your story in a meaningful perspective.
• A theme answers the question: “What is this story about?”
These two are reflectionsupon the formative
stories above and theywill help you identifythemes in the next step.
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color coding with itemsthat could be grouped
together, these groupingsended up being, for
all intensive purposesbeing my themes.
The Difference between Theme and Metaphor
• A theme answers the question: “What is this story about?”
• A metaphor is a vehicle that carries the theme and helps explain it.
Theme: From Chaos to OrderTitle: Pittsburg State College Dallas Carbondale Springville
Song: “Kung Fu Fighter”
“Breaking Up is Hard To Do”
“I’ve Got You, Babe”
“Take This Job and . . .”
“Back In The Saddle Agai
n”
Chaos
Order
• Non-Christian home
• Alcoholics
• Fighting
• Parents Divorce
Salvation
• Trying to prove self
• Break-up w/girlfriend
• Lost election
Calling to Ministry
• Dallas Seminary
Marriage to Jill
• Marriage Conference
PastorCommunity
Church
• Testing
• Church Split
• Power struggles
• Denial of Problems
CareerDecision
PastorSpringville
BibleChurch
Life Story Theme
Parents Divorce
A Beginning Composition
with Brand New Notes
Discovering the Melodies
Practicing the Score Combining Melodies for Life
Increasing the Harmony
Balancing the Volume1 4 5 18 19 23 24 49 50 69
Mother: Church,BeautyPersevering
Father: Self-made manHardworkingAlcohol
Melodies:
• Searching for security and what is normal…………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
• Determination and striving toward excellence ………………………………………………………………………………….………………….
• Influencing through hospitality, networking, welcoming in ……………………….
• Passion ignited for leading, teaching, mentoring ever-present students ………
• Longing for “home” - creating one in 22 places …………………………..…………
Counter Melodies,minor, discordant notes
• “I have to hold it all together” - Super-Responsible ………………………………………………………………………………...……..……….
• “I have to compensate to appear ‘normal’” ………………………………………………………………….………………………………….……
• “Contribution and value measured by affirmation and recognition” …………………………………………………………..…………………
Grandmother Renna Kate Hearne Hinkle
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Aunts, Uncles - “Normal”“Front Seat”
SALVATION
4th grade - “teacher in training”
9th grade - discovering comfort and delight in leading and speaking up front
16 yrs: “My all to Christ”
ANDY - steady anchor, passion
Campus Crusade Staff • vehicle for training • passion ignited for mentoring younger women
ViennaEastern EuropeRussia
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University of Texas
MARRIAGEHospitalityStudents: U. of IllinoisChildrenCadets: West PointStudents: Texas A&M
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Leave pastorate for pastors in Eastern Europe and Russia
Marriage of our children
Energy Channeled Under Pressure
Circle of Friends ………………………………………………………………………………
Disruption into Focus and Offering
Life StoryGail Seidel
DTS: Spiritual Formation
DTS Students
DTS Graduation
Grandchildren
DMin Gordon ConwellTheological Seminary
• Influencing through hospitality, networking, “welcoming in”
• Passion ignited for leading, teaching, mentoring ever-present students
• Longing for “home” - creating one in 22 places
Theme: Energy channeled under pressure -Disruption into offering and focus
Principles of Encouragement
Encouragement, Larry Crabb
“The essence of encouragement is exposure without rejection”; the need to communicate, before anything else, acceptance.
“Understanding is sometimes better than advice;” after someone shares something deeply painful or personal is not the time to offer advice.
Principles of Encouragement
Encouragement, Larry Crabb
“The more precise the understanding, the more encouraging the words;” our level of listening directly limits the level to which we can encourage.
Principles of Encouragement
Encouragement, Larry Crabb
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