Leaving Our Holy Grails

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Leaving Our Holy Grails

• Roots Wings Conference 2006
• Keynote 1

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Introducing Leaving

• Leavings transform us spiritually.

• Leaving is the discipline of removing our roots
  from those soils where we find our identity,
  meaning, value and purpose.
• - Robert Mulholland, The Deeper Journey

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The Rich Young Taiwanese-Am

• Leader Child Prodigy

• CEO Wealthy

• Has Good Morals

• Wants Something More

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The Rich Young Taiwanese-Am

• 19You know the commandments Do not murder, do
  not commit adultery, do not steal, do not give
  false testimony, do not defraud, honor your
  father and mother.
• 20Teacher, he declared, All these I have kept
  since I was a boy.

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The Rich Young Taiwanese-Am

• 21Jesus looked at him and loved him. One thing
  you lack, he said. Go, sell everything you have
  and give all your stuff to the poor, and you
  will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow
  me.

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VIDEO CLIPIndiana Jones and the Last Crusade
(for the Holy Grail)
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Leaving Our Holy Grails

• Career Identity.

What area of service (job) am I, as a minister
of Christ, best able to bring reconciliation and
wholeness to a broken world?
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Leaving Our Holy Grails

• 2. Possessions Financial Security.

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Leaving Our Holy Grails

• 23Jesus looked around and said to his disciples,
  How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom
  of God! 24 The disciples were amazed at his
  words. But Jesus said again, Children, how hard
  it is to enter the kingdom of God! 25 It is
  easier for a camel to go through the eye of a
  needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom
  of God.

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Entering the Kingdom of God

• Let the little children come to me, and do not
  hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to
  such as these. I tell you the truth, anyone who
  will not receive the kingdom of God like a little
  child will never enter it. (Mark 1014-15)

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Leaving Our Holy Grails

• Career Identity.

• 2. Possessions and Financial Security.

3. Relationships.
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Jesus Purpose Behind Leavings

• Transformation and 100-fold life.

29 I tell you the truth, Jesus replied, no
one who has left home or brothers or sisters or
mother or father or children or fields for me and
the gospel 30 will fail to receive a hundred
times as much in this present age (homes,
brothers, sisters, mothers, children and
fieldsand with them, persecutions) and in the
age to come, eternal life.
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What are the holy grails that Jesus may be
calling you to leave?

• Roots Wings Conference 2006
• Keynote 1