EMPOWERING WOMEN

1. EMPOWERING WOMEN Dr. Martin Sanders October 19, 2013

2. MARK 1 Ministry Jesus’ Style

3. I. Spiritual Formation (9-13) • Face Your Temptation • Hear the Voice of Your Father • Receive Affirmation

4. II. DISCIPLESHIP (14-20) The process by which a Christian with a life worth emulating/modeling after commits himself/herself for an extended period of time to a few individuals who have been won to Christ, the purpose being to aid and guide their growth to maturity and equip them to reproduce themselves in a third spiritual generation.

6. III. AUTHORITY (21-28) Jesus gave authority to: • The 12 • The 70 • The 120 • The Church “The gates of hell shall not prevail against you.”

7. AUTHORITY (cont.) • Jesus had authority in teaching over disease and demonic forces.

8. IV. Priorities/Passion (29-39) • Relationships • Soul Care, Prayer • Everyone is looking for you! • Keep going to those who have never heard!

9. V. COMPASSION (40-42) Do not go week after week or month after month without intentionally expressing the compassion of Jesus Christ!

10. MARK 8:27-38 Empowered to Lead

11. Introduction • Overview of Mark’s Gospel • Be Empowered to Lead • INVEST YOUR LIFE

12. I. Know what you are investing in(verses 27-30) • Elementary Logic: Called disciples, Discipled disciples, Disciples make disciples • Christ’s primary purpose for the Church: Disciple-making • Objective: Who do people say that He is? • Subjective: Who do you say that He is? • Discuss Issues vs. Understanding Implications • Become a Disciple of Jesus Christ, skillfully disguised as a ________________. (Your Vocation)

13. II. Know the Right Questions to Ask(verses 31-38) • Who’s in control of your life? (vv. 31-33) (Note the exchange between Jesus and Peter) • What are you doing with your life? (vv.35-37) (Invest your gifts, resources, life) • Where are you going with your life?(vv.34,38) • Deny Self vs. Self-Denial • Take up your cross • Follow Him • Honestly Address self-will issues

14. Application: Life-Change Process • Seeking • Conversion • Discipleship • Mentoring • Leadership Development

15. Conclusion • Invest what you have, not what you wish you had! • Invest your life • Make it count • Pass it on to the next generation

16. Pass it on to the next generation: • Billy Graham • Leighton Ford • Martin Sanders • Bo Sanders • Wanda W. • Lisa P. • Betzi S. • You • Ed Kimbal • Dwight L. Moody • F.B. Myer • Wilbur Chapman • Billy Sunday • Mordecai Ham

17. MARK 16 Empowering Others to Lead

18. The Next Generation • Make Disciples (v. 15-16) • Receive the Power of the Holy Spirit (v.17-18) • See People Saved, Healed, Set Free, Empowered! (v. 18) • Focus on the Giver rather than the gifting. • Go Be a Disciple who makes disciples (v.19-20)

19. Reflection on Mark 16 • My life mission and purpose statement • A statement of mission for my ministry • My approach to empowerment • My plan to develop the Next Generation

20. Am I a disciple of Jesus Christ, able and willing to reproduce myself in the next spiritual generation? If not, what do I need in order to become one? My approach to empowering others is/will be… My plan to develop the Next Generation will involve… “Lord give me__________, so that I may better _______________ in the Kingdom of God!” Reflections

21. LEADERSHIP QUESTIONS • Assess your leadership style. (Critical incident: Describe a time when . . . ) • Relationships: How are you doing? --Assess family life, opposite and some same-sex relationships

22. PERSONAL & SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT

23. DEVELOPMENTAL PROCESS Moving from where you are to where you need to be: Moving from A > D > R > Z God’s development in your life: Romans 5 Romans 8 Revelation 19-21

24. God is forever on a quest. Ever thought about that? His pursuit is a subject woven through the fabric of the New Testament. The pattern He follows is set forth in Romans 8:29, where He promises to conform us to His Son’s image. Another promise is stated in Philippians 1:6, where we’re told He began His work in us and He isn’t about to stop. Elsewhere He even calls us His “workmanship” (Eph. 2:10). He is hammering, filing, chiseling, and shaping us! Peter’s second letter goes so far as to list some of the things included in this quest – diligence, faith, moral excellence, knowledge, self-control, perseverance, godliness, kindness, and love (2 Peter 1:5-7). In a word…character. Character qualities in His children – that’s God’s relentless quest. His strobe light will continue to penetrate our darkness. He won’t quit His quest until He completes His checklist. And when will that be? When we rest in peace… and not one day sooner. Only then will His mission be accomplished in us. We have Him to thank for not giving up as we go through the process of developing character. Thanks, Lord.

25. LIFELINE DEVELOPMENT PHASES 18 30 40 55+ • Learning Years • Critical Question • Who am I? • Characteristics • High activity • Broad Learning • Hopeful/anxious • Searching verifying • Accomplishing • Gathering • Self oriented • Survival • Dangers • Bad life decisions • No mentors • Weak inner life • Little concern for inner life • Key Ingredients • Exposure/experience • Understanding self • Faithfulness • Feedback/adjustment • Inner life growth • Ministry participation • Key element • Mentors • Building Years • Critical Question • Where is my place? • Characteristics • Intense schedule • Narrow learning • Tyranny of the urgent • Dealing with baggage • Achieving/ making it • Improving • Work oriented • Success • Dangers • No anchors, life structures • No mentors/peers • Doing overrides being • No intimacy • Key Ingredients • Developing life structures • Applying self • Stewardship • Feedback adjustment • Inner life growth • Identifying ministry • Key element • Mentors and peers • Focusing Years • Critical question • Why am I here? • Characteristics • Changing schedule • Targeted learning • Uncertain/weary • Questioning/adjusting • Contributing>influencing • Mastering • Purpose oriented • Significance • Dangers • Mid-life melt down • No mentors//peers • Dabbling • Plateauing • Key ingredients • Clarifying purpose • Focusing self • Stewardship • Feedback adjustment • Inner life growth • Intentional ministry • Key element • Mentors and peers • Investing Years • Critical question • How do I finish well and leave an enduring legacy? • Characteristics • Focused/looser schedule • Selected learning • Anxious • Accepting • Influencing>contributing • Converging • Others-oriented • Significance • Dangers • Stop learning/growing • Security driven • Lack of purpose • Not finishing well • No meaningful connections • Key ingredients • Making final years count • Investing self • Generosity • Feedback adjustment • Inner life growth • Identifying your legacy • Key Element • Peer and mentorees

26. Discover Why You Are The Way You Are • Congruence • Emotions • Assessments • Profile • Heart and Soul • Leadership

27. Congruence HEART FOR IMAGE IDENTITY GOD -faith -public persona -deprivations -significance -external goal -hidden side -passion -projected image -dark spot -ministry -what we show -what we are

28. Deprivations • Essential components of human development • Security • Love • (Emotions, Confidence) • Intimacy • Significance • Affirmation

29. Resolving Identity Issues • Deprivations: Essential Components of Human Development Security Love (Emotions & Confidence) Intimacy Affirmation Significance

30. Additional Issues • Fears • Traumas • Childhood Issues • Character Issues • Unresolved Issues • Analogies: Cleaning out a closet; updating file system

31. How Big is the Hole? • Annoying • Nagging • Gnawing

32. How Do I Address the Issue(s)? • Identify Available Human Resources • God to God (Deeply) for the Rest • Make Responsible Adult Decisions

33. Heart & Soul Questions • Loving God • How do you best commune with God: listening, talking, reading, writing, walking, sitting, etc.? • Are you more comfortable loving God, or being loved by Him? • Are you more comfortable loving God, or serving Him? • What hinders you from meeting with God, or receiving from Him?

34. Spiritual Gifts Overview Passion, Experiences, Integrative Model Personal Strengths vs. Weaknesses Package: spiritual gifts - natural abilities

35. Identifying Your Gifts Assessments & Tests Ask friends Networking, Uniquely You, IDAK, Strength Finders, Temperament Analysis

36. Utilizing Your Gifts Confidence & Courage Assessment & Feedback Taking Risks Learning from Experiences Q&A

37. DISCIPLESHIP, MENTORING, COUNSELING, COACHING, SOUL CARE, SPIRITUAL DIRECTION

38. DISCIPLESHIP QUESTIONS How do you spend your best time with God? What 5 Scriptures you have memorized have been most meaningful to you? What areas have you been challenged by the Spirit to trust Him more? Which areas are the toughest to turn over? What temptations have you encountered recently? Did you overcome or yield?

39. DISCIPLESHIP QUESTIONS Identify steps you are taking to actively yield to the Holy Spirit. What does God’s Spirit want you to do about ________?

40. Accountability Questions • How is your relationship with God right now? • What have you read in the Bible in the past week? • What has God said to you in this reading? • Where do you find yourself resisting Him these days? • What specific things are you praying for in regard to others? • What specific things are you praying for in regard to yourself? • What are the specific tasks facing you right now that you consider incomplete? • What habits intimidate you?

41. Accountability Questions • What have you read in the secular press this week? • What general reading are you doing? • What have you done to play? • How are you doing with your spouse? Kids? • If I were to ask your spouse about your state of mind, spirit, energy level, what would the response be? • Are you sensing any spiritual attacks from the enemy right now? • If Satan were to try to invalidate you as a person or a servant of the Lord, how might he do it?

42. Accountability Questions • What is the state of your sexual perspective? Tempted? Dealing with fantasies? Entertainment? • Where are you financially right now? (things under control? Under anxiety? In great debt?) • Are there any unresolved conflicts in your circle of relationships right now? • When was the last time you spent time with a good friend of your own gender? • What kind of time have you spent with anyone who is a non-Christian this past month?

43. Accountability Questions • What challenges do you think you’re going to face in the coming week? Month? • What would you say are your fears at the present time? • Are you sleeping well? • What three things are you most thankful for? • Do you like yourself at this point in your pilgrimage? • What are your greatest confusions about your relationship with God?

44. MENTORING QUESTIONS What key character issues are you addressing? How are you interacting with: God, self, spouse, family, work, other relationships? What is the best way to address the key issue you are facing right now? How are you doing with the opposite sex this week?

45. MENTORING QUESTIONS • On a scale of 1-10, how loved does your spouse feel by you today? • What are your three greatest strengths you can pass to the next generation? • Feedback Questions • What are some challenges you have faced recently? • What is the biggest problem you have faced? How did you resolve it? • What areas are you intentionally developing, and why?

46. COACHING QUESTIONS What are your dreams? What would you really love to enjoy in life? What aspect of your life would you like to improve? What would you like to work on? On a scale of 1-10 how motivated are you to reach this objective? How would your life be different if you achieved this goal? Paint me a picture What would it be worth to you to get this accomplished? If you had all the money you would ever need, what would you do? If you had all the time, energy and money to achieve your goal, what would you do?

47. COACHING QUESTIONS What is missing from your life? What is your self-concept? Who are you and what do you want? What do you do for fun? How can you reframe that to help you move on? What works well? What do you think the main challenge is? What do you want to experience? What’s stopping you? What does your intuition (inner voice) tell you? If that doesn’t work, what else could you do? What are you tolerating?

48. COUNSELING QUESTIONS What is the key issue(s) you are facing this week? Describe ways you are responding to others. Do you find yourself being more defensive, critical, blaming, self-accusing, or taking appropriate responsibility in conflicts at this time? How do you feel about that? Can you identify key issue(s) of the past that are affecting you?

49. COUNSELING QUESTIONS • Variety of relationship, feeling/frustration, past and current impact issues • Outcome Frame Questions: • What is the goal or desired state: Describe what you want your life to be. Paint a picture with broad sweeping strokes. • When and where and with whom do you want it? • How will you know when you get it? • In what way/how will your life be different? • What stops you from getting it? What do you need in order to get it?

50. SPIRITUAL DIRECTION QUESTIONS What would you like your relationship/ connection with God to be like? Has it ever been like that? Can you identify any blocks/barriers that currently (or past) get in the way? Have you been honest about your disappointments with ________? Are you able to freely express to God what you want, need, feel, etc.?