Triad Talks Get into groups of three people and answer the following questions: 1.What is your name/major/home town? 2.What is one thing that stood out.

Triad Talks

Get into groups of three people and answer the following questions:

1.What is your name/major/home town?2.What is one thing that stood out to you

from last week’s message?3.What is the longest you have ever gone

without speaking?

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Grace:

grace effort

Approach indirectly

Long-term solution

Focus on changing all of you

Work Wiser

Confront directly

Short-term fix

Focus on one aspect of your life

Work harder

Trying vs. Training

Disciplines – The Goal

1. Lead us to God2. Make us like Jesus3. Equip us for the work God has

prepared for us

Superficiality is the curse of this age. The doctrine of instant gratification is a primary spiritual problem. The desperate need today is not for a greater number of intelligent people, or gifted people, but for deep people.

A.W. Tozer

For many of us the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it. We will just skim out lives instead of actually living them.

John Ortberg

“Say ‘NO’ Muscles” “Say ‘YES’ Muscles

• Fasting• Solitude• Silence• Simplicity• Confession

• “Go Time”• Study• Prayer time• Celebration• Journaling• Service

How to Succeed at Disciplines

• Make a clear decision• Get a mentor who excels in that area• Have a clear goal• Think long term• Start at a doable level• Follow the “wind”• Look to, and wait upon, God• Read good books about disciplines

Triad Talks (Remix)

Get into groups of three people and answer the following questions:

1.What do you think God is saying to you through the message tonight?

2.What discipline(s) do you want to start?3.What is your plan for doing that?4.Pray for each other.