The Story of Our Lives

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The Story of Our Lives: Journey, Awareness, Relationship
The Story of Our Lives: Journey, Awareness, Relationship
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Remember? >> Why? Story of our lives God's personal story Your story?
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What duty did Oka have in his first ministry? What church did William go to after his NTU YISS? Philip had an emotional experience waiting for confession, what happened when he ran in to the confession room? When growing up as a little boy, my grandmother used to tell me stories and give advice. What did she say about eating rice?
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The Story of Our Lives: Journey, Awareness, Relationship
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Remember? Why? >> Story of our lives God's personal story Your story?
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Stories - people remember stories Lives - of people we know. And important parts of their story their life story Something interesting, these little stories have become part of our larger story as a group. If you've been coming to this ministry, and heard these sharings, they become part of your own story
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Life: one big story People: many little stories Christianity: one HUGE story And God...
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Remember? Why? Story of our lives >> God's personal story Your story?
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Uses the little stories to influence the huge story Uses the huge story to influence the little stories Both sets of stories share in each other
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The Story of Our Lives: Journey, Awareness, Relationship
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Remember? Why? Story of our lives God's personal story >> Your story?
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We share not just in the story of the whole Bible, but even in God's personal story - in Jesus' story - every year That's what the Mass readings and the Gospels are, installments of a story, one episode at a time
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What's it about?
Remember? Why? Story of our lives God's personal story Your story? >>
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The Story of Our Lives: Journey, Awareness, Relationship
STORY: Journey
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Movement >> Journey Captivating Life Importance
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“Christian life is not a measure of the good and bad in our lives at any given time. It is the movement of one's whole life.” ~ St. Thomas Aquinas, acc. To Fr. Timothy Radcliffe (What's the point of being a Christian, pg 41) A movement... in other words, a journey – a journey to God
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The Story of Our Lives: Journey, Awareness, Relationship
STORY: Journey
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Movement Journey >> Captivating Life Importance
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The best stories are about journeys - not just descriptions - movement! LOTR, cheering Frodo on as he makes it to the volcano at Mt. Doom, to destroy the ring think about everything that happened for him to get there MFSE, Jesus on His journey to destroy sin at Mt. Calvary – think about everything that happened for Him to get here TSOL... what mountain are we going to?
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The Story of Our Lives: Journey, Awareness, Relationship
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Movement Journey Captivating >> Life Importance
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A great journey is a captivating story People interested in stories, more interested in stories about journeys Guess what? Someone else is captivated Sitting in a special cinema screen in Heaven...
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The Story of Our Lives: Journey, Awareness, Relationship
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Movement Journey Captivating Life >>
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The Story of Our Lives is made up of smaller stories Like a TV series... episodes, arcs, standalones, mini-sodes, guest stars, recurring appearances Life mini-sodes eg. Praying over that car... hearing another person's story and how I played a part A crossover, eg. Flintstones & Jetsons, supercool! God weaves through these minisodes, billions of them. How cool is that?
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Importance
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Movement Journey Captivating Life Importance >>
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What's so important about your journey? Your story?
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What's the most important book out there?
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The Story of Our Lives: Journey, Awareness, Relationship
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The Bible?
Movement Journey Captivating Life Importance
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The Bible is just a bunch of excerpts...
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It's not the most important book
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The Story of Our Lives: Journey, Awareness, Relationship
STORY: Journey
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Book of Life What do you think it contains? (hint: look at the title of this slide) Phil 4:3, Rev 20:12, Rev 20:15
Movement Journey Captivating Life Importance
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Important book Most important book >>
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The Story of Our Lives in The Book of Life
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Phil 4:3 “And I ask you also, true yokefellow, help these women, for they have labored side by side with me in the gospel together with Clement and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life.” Rev 20:12 “And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Also another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, by what they had done.” Rev 20:15 “And if any one's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.”
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STORY: Journey
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Book of Life What do you think it contains? (hint: look at the title of this slide) Phil 4:3, Rev 20:12, Rev 20:15 He's helping you create a big story of your life out of the mini-sodes Then He's weaving everybody's story into an even larger story, part of His story of all life Eternal importance! How you will spend eternity, your whole salvation, depends on the story of your journey
Movement Journey Captivating Life Importance
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Important book
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STORY: Awareness
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There are hints What's your deepest desire in life?
Know your story >>
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Beginning Trajectory A companion How God speaks to you
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Revel in your stories
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There are hints What's your deepest desire in life? God can use that desire It drives your story
Know your story >>
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Beginning Trajectory A companion How God speaks to you
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Revel in your stories
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STORY: Awareness
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Know your story
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Beginning >> Trajectory A companion How God speaks to you
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“To begin my life with the beginning of my life, I record that I was born...” ~ Charles Dickens When does the protagonist become aware he's in a story?
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Sophie's World Me in that retreat at Kingsmead Hall...
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Revel in your stories
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Keep note of your story Trace it out
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Know your story
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Beginning Trajectory >> A companion How God speaks to you
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High points Low points God points Live that story Not someone else's story...
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Where does He point to?
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Revel in your stories
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The Story of Our Lives: Journey, Awareness, Relationship
STORY: Awareness
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Know your story
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A quiet companion on our journeys He's been everywhere with me
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Beginning Trajectory A companion >> How God speaks to you
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My tracing of trajectory...
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And now it also feels like I've been everywhere with Him
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Revel in your stories
Got led into Bible study Followed Him thru His journey, His story... thru the Old Testament & New Testament
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Know your story
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A quiet companion on our journeys He's been everywhere with me
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Beginning Trajectory A companion >> How God speaks to you
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My tracing of trajectory...
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And now it also feels like I've been everywhere with Him
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Revel in your stories
Got led into Bible study Followed Him thru His journey, His story... thru the Old Testament & New Testament
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Me?
Know your story
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Beginning Trajectory A companion How God speaks to you >>
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Revel in your stories
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Know your story
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Beginning Trajectory A companion How God speaks to you
Know your stories. Know your mini-stories, your mini-sodes. Revel in them, for they are yours, yours to celebrate and share.
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STORY: Relationship
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God Others
With whom? >> Share your story Quality depth Remember
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STORY: Relationship
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With whom? Share your story >>
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The Word Many ways My opinion
Humanity's stories are already interwoven - we reinforce that interconnectedness, that relationship, by verbally sharing those stories with each other
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Quality depth Remember
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STORY: Relationship
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With whom? Share your story
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'Logos' can mean word, sentence, account, story, order This world & our lives are about a certain order of things, a certain story We pass it on by spreading that story, that Logos God spoke you into existence, so you can speak Him to others Something magical about words, we create when we speak...
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The Word >> Many ways My opinion
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STORY: Relationship
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With whom? Share your story
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Even the popularity of FaceBook & Twitter
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People want to hear the story of your life Technology is a good tool but... don't over-rely on a tool Don't lose human contact... God thought we needed it
The Word Many ways >> My opinion
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Quality depth Remember
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Go Deep... Have deep conversations with people. Take time, share your story Not shallow, wasteful, banter
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The Word Many ways My opinion >>
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Quality depth Remember
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With whom? Share your story Quality depth >>
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The best way, the traditional way... Go out, meet, share... One person to another
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Not just for couples, for everyone Not common for 2 guys? Too romantic for guy & girl?
Even secular world And in Scripture?
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Christians were never just a common people and you don't have to be a romantic Catholic to be a Roman Catholic 'Brother' and 'Sister'
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Quite often Christians forget what is good for us, and the secular world somehow picks it up and uses it... though for other reasons Business books: Never have lunch or dinner alone, always invite someone to join you Recent NY Times Health article 'Talk Deeply, Be Happy?'
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Even secular world >> And in Scripture?
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The New York Times: Health Section March 17, 2010 'Talk Deeply, Be Happy?'
By Roni Caryn Rabin Would you be happier if you spent more time discussing the state of the world and the meaning of life — and less time talking about the weather? It may sound counterintuitive, but people who spend more of their day having deep discussions and less time engaging in small talk seem to be happier, said Matthias Mehl, a psychologist at the University of Arizona who published a study on the subject. “We found this so interesting, because it could have gone the other way — it could have been, ‘Don’t worry, be happy’ — as long as you surf on the shallow level of life you’re happy, and if you go into the existential depths you’ll be unhappy,” Dr. Mehl said. But, he proposed, substantive conversation seemed to hold the key to happiness for two main reasons: both because human beings are driven to find and create meaning in their lives, and because we are social animals who want and need to connect with other people.
The Story of Our Lives: Journey, Awareness, Relationship
STORY: Relationship
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With whom? Share your story Quality depth
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Jesus seems to always be dining with someone
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tax collectors, pharisees, lawyers, public officials, fishermen, political activists, good listeners, distracted people, worriers, people who liked him, people who were suspicious of him
Even sends disciples out 2 by 2 (Mark 6:7)
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Why?...
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'Go Deep' In rugby: if you're too 'flat', you're trying to outrun God, and you won't catch the ball He's passing to you
With whom? Share your story Quality depth Remember >>
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STORY: Conclusion
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So... >> End
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The story of our lives is about a movement, a journey You need to know it, be aware of it And you need to share it, relate it to others
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So what's your story? Is it in the Book of Life? Is it a good journey? Will you be captivated by it if you were God? Where are you going? Are you telling anyone?
So... End >>
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