Leading Beyond your Comfort Zone

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Leading Beyond your Comfort Zone
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Discipline of Children

• Most of America 's populace think it improper to
  spank children, so I have tried other methods to
  control my kids when they have one of "those
  moments." One that I found effective is for me
  to just take the child for a car ride and talk.
  They usually calm down and stop misbehaving
  after our car ride together. I've included a
  photo below of one of my sessions with my son, in
  case you would like to use the technique.

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Spanking vs. Tough Love
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James II Swim Lessons
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Decide You Want to Win

• Free from all men
• Slave to all men
• May win more

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Defer

• Deferring our rights for the Kingdom
• To the Jews-Those that were religious
• To those w/o Law-Those that were irreligious
• To the weak-Those that ill-equipped

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Demonstrate...

• For the sake of the Gospel
• Fellow partakers of the Gospel

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Lessons from Swim Lessons

• Prepare yourself to move beyond
• Pray that you trust father more than self
• Participate in process

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Process of Change

• Study yourself
• Study with other Elders
• Purpose of Prayer
• Purpose of Worship
• Purpose of Communion
• Purpose of Church
• Biblical Teaching Methods
• Ministry Philosophy
• Vision Process
• Model before the Brethren
• Teach the Brethren

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Context of Creative Methods
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Purpose of Creative Methods

• 1 Timothy 15 (NASB95)
• 5 But the goal of our instruction is love from a
  pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere
  faith.

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Process of Creative Methods

• How can I make it visual!
• How can I make it clearer!!
• How can I make it believable!!
• How can I make it stick!!

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Product of Creative Methods

• Colossians 128 (NASB95)
• 28 We proclaim Him, admonishing every man and
  teaching every man with all wisdom, so that we
  may present every man complete in Christ.

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Power behind Creative Methods

• 1 Corinthians 21-5 (NASB95)1 And when I came to
  you, brethren, I did not come with superiority of
  speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the
  testimony of God. 2 For I determined to know
  nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and Him
  crucified. 3 I was with you in weakness and in
  fear and in much trembling, 4 and my message and
  my preaching were not in persuasive words of
  wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of
  power, 5 so that your faith would not rest on the
  wisdom of men, but on the power of God.

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Get Comfortable (1 Cor. 9)
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Submit to the Spirit (Rm. 122)

• Not conforming to the world
• Engaging your mind in the process
• Follow the Spirits leading

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Major on the Majors (Mt. 2324)

1. Gods Standards/Mans Standards
2. Truth/Wisdom
3. Information/Transformation
4. Unfamiliar/Familiar
5. Style/Substance
6. Tradition/Traditionalism
7. Form/Function

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Form vs. Function

• Function What God requires us to do.
• Form How we choose to do it.

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Form vs. Function

• Function
• What are we to do and why? What is the core
  activity that should take place regardless of how
  it may manifest itself in a program
• Form
• What is the expression/implementation of a
  particular function?

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Form vs. Function

• Form
• Shape
• Structure
• Pattern

• Function
• The task
• Substance
• Process

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Examples of Form/Function

• Prayer
• Worship
• Inductive Bible Study
• Seeker Driven Model
• Group Counseling
• Child Evangelism Fellowship
• Sunday School
• Small Groups

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Focus on the Process

• General/Special Revelation
• Learning Styles
• What we hear? Touch? Do?
• Why? What? How? Where?
• Blooms Taxonomy
• Higher Levels of Learning

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Starting Point (Acts 17Titus 2)

• Begin with Familiar, Move to unfamiliar
• Talk about things they know
• Show them truth through their eyes

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Truth Communication Styles

• Story Telling
• Parables
• Lecture
• Apocalyptic Material
• Poetry
• Music
• Nature

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Visual Aids (Natural)

• Ocean
• Beaches
• Trees
• Flowers
• Plants
• You live in a visually stimulating culture!
• You have to have a visually stimulating message!

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Modern Methods

• Matching Drama to Reality
• Matching Elements to Agenda
• Matching Atmosphere to Theme
• Matching Music to Mood
• Matching Video to Validate