Group of 4 10/21

 I hope each of you is having a great week!  Our next time together is October 21, 7:45 am at Roger's. 

Unless someone has a better idea, what if we discuss Dallas Willard’s VIM model in respect to our personal identity.  1) how do you see your identity (vision of yourself) changing in the past few months?  2) As you reflect on your spiritual formation the past few weeks, how is the view of yourself changing?  3) What factors are motivating you to be transformed?  4) How do you WANT to be transformed emotionally, in your mindset, in your behavior? 5) Are you becoming someone you  didn’t expect?  6) What are the methods / practices / disciplines that are helping transform your identity?  

1 John 3:1-3

[1] See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him. [2] Beloved, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is. [3] And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.

Answers

1.  I’m a child - who cannot control outcomes. God is moving in unseen ways that do not understand. My role is to trust my Father. 

2.  I’m in the world but not of the world. I’m of the kingdom, asking that the kingdom come into me as in heaven.