Living on Purpose

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Living on Purpose

THE ETERNAL CALL TO MEANING & ADVENTURE

A highly practical, 7-module e-course to help you discover and pursue God's unique plan for your life.

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Session 1

The Power of Story / Why Knowing Your Own Story is Essential

Joseph shares his personal story to illustrate how all our stories contain “clues” that can help us discern God’s unique plan and purpose for our lives.

In this first session, you’ll have the opportunity to look more closely at your story as a first step toward seeing how your unique life experiences are actually one of the ways you’ve been equipped to pursue God’s unique purpose for your life.

Action steps to complete in your workbook:

Identify the unique trials and painful experiences you’ve had to deal with in your life
Identify your unique “DNA”
Divide your personal story into “chapters”

The Power of Story

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Session 2

Home at Last / Why Honesty and Vulnerability are Prerequisites to Discovering and Pursuing God’s Purpose for Your Life

Joseph completes his personal story. Once again, he does this to exemplify the kind of honesty and vulnerability you will need to experience a life rich with meaning and purpose.

Action steps to complete in your workbook:

Identify the times when God showed up in your life in unexpected ways, at unexpected times
Understand and appreciate the roles that love, mercy, and grace played in you becoming a follower of Jesus
Identify specific “scenes” during each chapter of your story that shaped how you came to see yourself and what you came to believe about yourself

Home at Last

Session 3

Unleashing Your Story / How to Overcome Toxic Emotions and Limiting Beliefs

Exposing the way anger, resentment, self-pity, and comparing yourself with others can keep you from finding and pursuing God’s unique purpose for your life.

Action steps to complete in your workbook:

Identify areas of your life where you’ve struggled with anger, resentment and/or self-pity
Identify specific people you’ve compared yourself to, and as a result felt inadequate or “less than”
Name the positive ways you’re different from these people, and how God might want to use these qualities to have a positive impact on the lives of others
iIentify the “limiting beliefs” that are holding you back from finding and pursuing God’s unique purpose for your life

Unleashing Your Story

Session 4

Wounded Healers / How to Experience More of God’s Love

How to position yourself to receive more of God’s love, without which you’ll never be able to find and pursue God’s unique purpose for your life.

Action steps to complete in your workbook:

Contrast the flawed way your earthly father or mother expressed their love for you with the perfect love of your Heavenly Father
Identify the experiences, struggles, and/or personal traits you may think disqualify you from receiving God’s love
Identify, commemorate, and commit to memory the specific times God drew near to you to reveal His love

Wounded Healers

Session 5

Knowing Your True Worth / Appreciating Your Intrinsic Value, and Discovering How God has Uniquely Gifted You to Serve and Bless Others

Every individual person has infinite worth. And God’s plan or strategy for the Church involves everymember making his or her unique contribution.

Action steps to complete in your workbook:

Appreciate how you’ve been “fearfully and wonderfully made” by your Creator to fulfill a unique and needed purpose
Identify the everyday Jesus followers who’ve had a significant impact on your life
Identify the unique spiritual gifts God has given you
Write your "obituary"
Create your 10-Year Vision

Knowing Your True Worth

Session 6

The Importance of Vision / Living for Something Greater Than Yourself

The only way your life will have meaning is if you pursue a vision greater than yourself. Fulfilling that vision requires patience, perseverance, and an unfailing trust in God’s timing. It also requires a specific long-term, mid-term, and short-term vision.

Action steps to complete in your workbook:

Identify the specific human needs you deeply care about (Passion Profile)
Closely examine how you spend your time
Write your 5-year Vision

The Importance of Vision

Session 7

Living on the Forward Edge / How to Keep Saying “Yes” to God’s Plan for Your Life

God often reveals His plans for us through circumstances we didn’t anticipate or seek for—a phenomenon Joseph calls “serendestiny.” How we respond to these “serendestiny moments” directly relates to finding and pursuing God’s unique purpose for our lives.

Action steps to complete in your workbook:

Identify the times in your life when God unexpectedly invited you to follow Him into unknown territory, and how He used those “serendestiny moments" to reveal His plans for you
Create your 1-Year Vision
Identify the specific “baby steps” you'd need to take to pursue your 1-Year Vision
Reach out to people who are doing what you wish you were doing
Write your “Personal Mission Statement”

Living on the Forward Edge