retreat ground rules to get the maximum benefit from the retreat: 1.turn off your cell phone except...

Retreat Ground Rules

To get the maximum benefit from the retreat:

1.Turn off your cell phone except during meal times or in the evening after the sessions are over.

2.Be in your chair and ready to begin at the designated start time of each session.

3.Engage every time of solitude the entire time. Start immediately when we say “Go,” and stay till the last minute of the designated time.

4.Participate fully in your small group. Say what is so for you with as much authenticity and clarity as you can.

5.Share what you are “getting” in the large group. This will significantly increase your learning as well as the learning of the group.

6.Record what the Holy Spirit says rather than what we say.

Session OneThe Call to Personal Transformation

The context for listening today . . .

U R G E N C Y ! ! !

Faithwalking is creating a community of disciples of Jesus who are being personally transformed and becoming catalysts, mobilizing Christians to become the functioning Body of Christ in their neighborhoods, workplaces and third places

•to serve the poor, the marginalized, and those in need•to work for the common good; and,•to restore individuals, social systems, communities and nations to God’s design.

One view of the fully human life

Defined by consumerism, ease and convenience

A second view of the fully human life

Defined by the life and teachings of Jesus

A call to repentance and a crisis of faith

Un-collapsing the two views

A posture of radical obedience is the key to advancing your journey.

Un-collapsing the the two views

Vows – the impact of wounding that occurred in childhood or adolescence.

A new way of listening

Learning to listen differently gives access to revelation.

What do you know?

What you know that you know

What you know that you don’t know

What you don’t know that you don’t know

Large Group Questions

•What got stirred up for you?

•Where are you experiencing resistance?

•Did anything open up for you?

•Is there some point of hopefulness?

Session Two

The Integrity Conversation

What do you think of when you consider the word integrity?

Consider "integrity" in light of God's activity and His being.

God said to Moses, "I AM WHO I AM. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: 'I AM has sent me to you.'” Exodus 3:14

Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect. Matthew 5:48

But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do; for it is written: “Be holy, because I am holy.” I Peter 1:15

A definition of integrity“Workability.” Relationships, communities, organizations, social systems and structures … all functioning the way God designed and intended them to function.

A 2nd definition of Integrity

We work with God to restore workability by giving our word - doing what you say you will do, when you say you will do it, in the manner that it was meant to be done.

Giving and keeping my wordCreating the future by giving my word today, even before I have the capacity to do what I promise.

Honoring My Word

• I honor my word by:

• Acknowledging that I didn’t keep my word

• Getting present to the impact in others of my failure to keep my word

• Asking forgiveness and making restitution where necessary and possible.

• Re-promising: giving my word again

Restoring integrity after I fail to keep my word.

Fully human fully alive people make really big promises

It is counter-intuitive but the things that really matter in life require that you make promises that you can’t currently keep.

What is not working in your life?

Consider the possibility -

the likelihood - that you

have broken a promise

or failed to honor an

agreement in that

relationship.

Large Group Questions

•What got stirred up for you?

•Where are you experiencing resistance?

•Did anything open up for you?

•Is there some point of hopefulness?

Session Three

The Goal of Faithwalking: Missional Living

A picture is worth a thousand words

The Church at Kirby Corporation

Obstacles to hearing the call to a missional life.

The obstacle of morality

The obstacle

of consumerism

The obstacle

of responsibility

A Reflective Lifewhere your word

increasingly co-creates the world with God

Radical Obedience that leads to a missional life

Authentic Community

that develops around and sustains a shared vision

Authentic Community that develops around and

sustains a shared vision

Radical Obedience that leads to a missional life

A Reflective LifeWhere your word

increasingly co-creates the world with God

• Where is God calling you to be on a reconciling, restorative mission?

• With whom is God calling you to be on mission?

• What obstacles must be overcome in you in order to be on mission?

Large Group Questions

•What got stirred up for you?

•Where are you experiencing resistance?

•Did anything open up for you?

•Is there some point of hopefulness?

Session Four

The Call To Radical Obedience

Obedience is where we join the adventure of faith.

Radical obedience . . . the call to a missional life

• Jesus is the mission of God in the flesh

• Mission is not an add-on

• Mission in the place you spend most of your day

Faithwalking is creating a community of disciples of Jesus who are being personally transformed and becoming catalysts, mobilizing Christians to become the functioning Body of Christ in their neighborhoods, workplaces and third places

•to serve the poor, the marginalized, and those in need•to work for the common good; and,•to restore individuals, social systems, communities and nations to God’s design.

”A small amount of a substance which, when added to another substance creates or accelerates a reaction, often without being consumed."

Radical obedience . . . confronting my own disobedience.•Context of love and grace•It's all about the learning!

Consciously Incompetent•Aware of disobedience but not dealing with it•Feelings of guilt/shame•Romans 7:15-20

Consciously Competent•Actively working on areas of disobedience and learning new behavior•Feelings range from energetic enthusiasm to frustrated fatigue•Philippians 2:12-13

Unconsciously Incompetent•Don’t know what we don’t know•Feelings of fear and defensiveness•Psalms 139:23-24

Unconsciously Competent•Living victorious and obediently by the grace of God.•Feelings of gratitude and celebration•2nd Corinthians 3:18

“If we walk in the light as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another and the blood of Jesus cleanses us from all sin.”

Large Group Questions

•What got stirred up for you?

•Where are you experiencing resistance?

•Did anything open up for you?

•Is there some point of hopefulness?

Session Five

Authenticity, A Gateway to Transformation

God knows everything, but have you told God everything that you know?

Spiritual disciplines are a means to an end, not ends in and of themselves

Authenticity attracts God’s presence

• Healing

• Revelation

• Guidance

Helping us to be “honest to God” and with others.

If authenticity with others is a gateway to transformation, why do we resist it so much?

We grow our capacity for life giving authenticity when we develop the skills of self-disclosure and

self awareness.

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Catalysts and Faithwalking 201

•A bi-weekl 201 seminar lasting 1 and ½ hours (via google hangouts).•A bi-weekly call between catalyst and his/her participants.•After 201, a monthly call for the remainder of Module 1.•Launch Faithwalking in your congregation after completion of 101, 201, and The Leadership Course.

Session Six

Vows that Obstruct the Path to Transformation

We all have needs and we all have wounds.

Experience MeaningFalse Self

You have made vows

A vow is a decision you made in the past about how you needed to “be” in the future in order not to be hurt the in same way.

Experience MeaningFalse Self

Session Six

Ministry Time

A Pathway to Healing and Liberation from the Power of Vows

To God and another person . . .

•Admit your habitual disobedience•Acknowledge the event/experience, the meaning you assigned, and the vows you made.•Describe something of the impact in you and others from you fulfilling your vows.•Pray a prayer of repentance: ask forgiveness for your disobedience, renounce the lie you believed and the vow you made.•Make a new promise based on God’s Truth.•Receive prayer•Repeat as needed

Session Seven

Mapping The Way Forward

Spiritual formation is not an event, it is a process of being conformed to the image of Jesus over time for the sake of others

To keep this journey alive . . .

•Register for Faithwalking 201 – a twenty-four week small group that meets every other week for 75 minutes – and you get a coach.•And complete Faithwalking 301 and 401.•Stay alert to continuing education opportunities – missional marriage, building healthy relationships, mastering the spiritual disciplines, missional money.•Considering paying it forward by contributing your registration fee and by becoming a monthly recurring donor.•Tell at least two people about what you experienced this weekend and about the promises you’ve made.•Watch your email this week.