Reading: Your Mission - Understanding God's personal call (The Video Slides)
A leader, with all his plusses and minuses, strengths and weaknesses, interacts with a group of people to define the culture (the way things are done here) in order to develop a vision for a preferable future, and then provides the impetus for doing the actions necessary to bring about that future with plans and prayer.
Your Personal Mission Statement
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Jeremiah 1:5
Acts 13:36-41
Ephesians 2:10
Philippians 3:8-14
Matthew 28:19-20
Matthew 25: 26-28
Matthew 23:37-40
John 13:34-35
John 17:20-23
Romans 15:6-7
2 Timothy 1:9
I Peter 2:1-5
Your Personal Mission Statement
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Values
Values are those things that we believe are important. As you think and pray about how God has “wired” you, list four values that are vitally important to you and shape your decisions.
health financial security possessions free time family
friends frugality generosity justice order
learning happiness relationships growth truth
wealth church peace of mind security respect
sincerity personal growth hard work
Your Personal Mission Statement
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Values
People you admire
Now think about two people you have come to admire. The more specific you can be the better, so write their names down.
What makes them admirable?
ambitious balanced caring committed fun
compassion courage creative dependable fair
forgiving organized proactive patient powerful
faithful loyal wise principled truthful
giving proactive thankful tolerant
selfless powerful witty trustworthy moral
Your Personal Mission Statement
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Values
People you admire
Personal strengths and gifts
Your gifts and talents enable you to make a unique contribution to the kingdom. From the list below (or add your own), choose up to six personal strengths. Then ask some people who know you well to describe your gifts and strengths.
adaptable articulate artistic clever
communicator confident
diplomatic
energetic
entertaining generous grateful hard-working
imaginative insightful intelligent kind
leader open-minded optimistic reliable
philosophical poetical sincere skillful
spiritual teacher teachable trustworthy
understanding visionary
Your Personal Mission Statement
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Values
People you admire
Personal strengths and gifts
God-Given Vision
Vision is the ability to see a preferable future. This is the heartbeat of a personal mission statement. Vision involves your passion. The following statements will help get at the vision God has given you for your life.
The qualities I most admire and would like God to work in my life are: _____________________ Why?
People who know me well believe I am most used by God when I am involved in _______________ Why?
The activities of my life that most contribute to the kingdom of God are: _____________________ Why?
When I hear about passion, the thing that immediately comes to mind is: _____________ Why?
If I knew I could not fail, in my lifetime I would like to do the following for the glory of God:
___________________________________
Personal Mission Statement
By God’s Grace, I am…..
He has called me to become….
And he has called me to serve his kingdom by….