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SF102 Community

SF102 Community. Session One: Introduction to Community. Big 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. Life Story Exercise 1. Chapters in your Story.

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SF102 Community

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  1. SF102 Community

  2. Session One: Introduction to Community • Big 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

  3. Life Story Exercise 1 Chapters in your Story

  4. 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.

  5. Life Story Exercise 2 Characters and Events

  6. Session Three: Experiences&Relationships • Big Idea: • The past is neither irrelevant to nor determinative of the present and the future • Pay attention to: • Paul’s perspective on his past

  7. Life Story Exercise 3 Formative Elements

  8. Life Story Exercise 4 The Author of Your Story

  9. Session Four: Formative Elements and Themes • Big 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

  10. Life Story Exercise 5 Identifying Themes

  11. Life Story Exercise 6 Chapter Titles

  12. Session Five: Telling Our Stories • Big 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

  13. Life Story Exercise 7 Creative Preparation

  14. Session Six - Ten: Life Story Presentations

  15. Session Eleven: Knowing & Being Known • Big 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

  16. Session Twelve: Turning Toward Integrity • Big 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

  17. PreparingYour Life Story

  18. Themes in Life Story

  19. 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?”

  20. These sheets are not to be neat and organized; it’s brainstorming!

  21. These are the two components of the story that will be told in this chapter.

  22. These two are reflections upon the formative stories above and they will help you identify themes in the next step.

  23. I went back and highlighted In Exercise 5 and did it with color coding with items that could be grouped together, these groupings ended up being, for all intensive purposes being my themes.

  24. Creatively Presenting Your Life Story

  25. 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.

  26. Theme: From Chaos to Order Life Story Theme

  27. Life StoryusingPersonalBrochure Theme: “Lost and Found” Metaphor: A Travel Brochure

  28. Life Storyusing Books as a Metaphor

  29. Life StoryusingBroadwayMusicalsas aMetaphorTheme: “In the Dance”

  30. • Drawings • Photo Album • Business Cards • Model of a Farm • Baseball Caps • You Name It! Life Story

  31. Life StoryGailSeidel

  32. Life StoryBrokenHeart

  33. Life StoryProtected Heartportion closingdown

  34. Life StoryChallengedHeartbut stillProtected

  35. Life StoryExposedandThawingHeart

  36. Life StoryOpening up . . .EmbracingHeart

  37. A moment of truth . . .

  38. Life Story Gail Seidel

  39. Parents Divorce Life Story Gail Seidel Energy Channeled Under Pressure Disruption into Focus and Offering A Beginning Compositionwith Brand New Notes Discovering the Melodies Practicing the Score Combining Melodies for Life Increasing the HarmonyBalancing the Volume 1 4 19 23 24 49 5 18 50 69 * * GrandmotherRenna Kate Hearne Hinkle ANDY - steady anchor, passion MARRIAGE Vienna Eastern Europe Russia * Hospitality Students: U. of Illinois Children Cadets: West Point Students: Texas A&M Aunts, Uncles - “Normal” University of Texas Mother: Church, Beauty Persevering “Front Seat” DTS: Spiritual Formation DTS Students DTS Graduation Campus Crusade Staff • vehicle for training • passion ignited for mentoring younger women SALVATION Leave pastorate for pastors in Eastern Europe and Russia Father: Self-made man Hardworking Alcohol 4th grade - “teacher in training” 9th grade - discovering comfort and delight in leading and speaking up front Grandchildren Marriage of our children DMin Gordon ConwellTheological Seminary Circle of Friends ……………………………………………………………………………… 16 yrs: “My all to Christ” 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” …………………………………………………………..…………………

  40. Theme: Energy channeled under pressure -Disruption into offering and focus • Influencing through hospitality, networking, “welcoming in” • Passion ignited for leading, teaching, mentoring ever-present students • Longing for “home” - creating one in 22 places

  41. The End

  42. Principles of Encouragement “The essence of encouragement is exposure without rejection”; the need to communicate, before anything else, acceptance. 1 Encouragement, Larry Crabb

  43. Principles of Encouragement “Understanding is sometimes better than advice;”after someone shares something deeply painful or personal is not the time to offer advice. 2 Encouragement, Larry Crabb

  44. Principles of Encouragement “The more precise the understanding, the more encouraging the words;”our level of listening directly limits the level to which we can encourage. 3 Encouragement, Larry Crabb

  45. Gail’s Life Storya vignette

  46. My Grandmother and “Snake Boy”

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