Setting and Achieving Goals for a Purpose-Driven Life & Ministry

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The Path

of a Spiritual

Leader

The Path of Purpose-Driven Life

Surrender: Am I ready to live for God completely?

Stewardship: Am I ready to be who God made to be ?

Service: Am I ready to use my life to impact others ?

Significance: Am I living the life God created me to live?

God has planned for you & I :-

ii. To fulfill His particular PURPOSE

(Ephesians 1:11; 2:10)

i. To be a certain type of PERSON (Romans 8:29)

WHO am I

becoming?

Am I fulfilling God’s

CALL AND PURPOSE

for my life?

Your Personal Destiny

Fundamental Qs of Life

“to be conformed to

the image of his Son”

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CALL AND PURPOSE

Romans 8:29

“For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son”

Ephesians 1:11  ”in whom also we were made a heritage, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who works all things after the counsel of his will”

Ephesians 2:10  ”For by his act we were given existence in Christ Jesus to do those good works which God before made ready for us so that we might do them”.

The Identity Iceberg...

�The Value of Vision (Habakkuk 2: 1-3)�

“I will stand upon my watch, and set myself on the tower, and watch to see what He will say to me, and what I shall answer concerning my complaint.

And the LORD answered me, and said: Write the vision, and make it plain on tables, that he may run who reads it. For the vision is yet for the appointed time, but at the end it will speak, and it will not lie; though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not delay”.

عَلَى مَرْصَدِي أَقِفُ، وَعَلَى الْحِصْنِ أَنْتَصِبُ، وَأُرَاقِبُ لأَرَى مَاذَا يَقُولُ لِي، وَمَاذَا أُجِيبُ عَنْ شَكْوَايَ. فَأَجَابَنِي الرَّبُّ وَقَالَ: «اكْتُبِ الرُّؤْيَة وَانْقُشْهَا عَلَى الأَلْوَاحِ لِكَيْ يَرْكُضَ قَارِئُهَا، لأَنَّ الرُّؤْيَة بَعْدُ إِلَى الْمِيعَادِ، وَفِي النِّهَايَةِ تَتَكَلَّمُ وَلاَ تَكْذِبُ. إِنْ تَوَانَتْ فَانْتَظِرْهَا لأَنَّهَا سَتَأْتِي إِتْيَانًا وَلاَ تَتَأَخَّرُ“

a dream; a picture of a preferred future; the ultimate end; desired end-state

Vision

Mission

Goals

is a road map to achieve the vision; Descriptive statement(s) of how to achieve the vision (present)

a set of specific measurable steps

Biblical Examples of God-Given Vision

LEADER VISION

Noah To build the Arc of survival/deliverance

Abraham To create a great nation of people of faith

Moses To lead the people of Israel out of Egypt

Joshua To lead the people of Israel into the Promised Land

David To build the temple in Jerusalem

Solomon To complete the building of the temple

Nehemiah To rebuild the Jerusalem wall

Paul To take the Gospel to the Gentiles

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Personal Vision

• Your Personality
• Giftings
• Talents
• Strengths
• Experiences

Like two halves of a magnet :

• Sense of Purpose
• Calling to the need
• Vision - it is You
• Mission to accomplish

how to state clear Goal (SMART)

• S specific: “I will have daily devotions from 6-7 am every day in my room”
• M measurable: “I will share the gospel with 100 people in my community in the year starting next week”
• A attainable (be honest with yourself about what you can reasonably accomplish at this point in time)
• R realistic (doable, real and practical)
• T timely: “I will conduct a Christian leadership seminar in September 2010 “

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The Balanced Life & The Christian Life

life balances

Paul’s Vision, Mission, Goals

Acts 20:24

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“But none of these things move me;

nor do I count my life dear to myself,

so that I may finish my race

with joy, and the ministry which

I received from the Lord Jesus,

to testify to the Gospel

of the Grace of God”.

Vision :

Mission :

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