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    Surrendering Your Life for God's Pleasure: Six Sessions on Worship
    Surrendering Your Life for God's Pleasure: Six Sessions on Worship
    Surrendering Your Life for God's Pleasure: Six Sessions on Worship
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    Surrendering Your Life for God's Pleasure: Six Sessions on Worship

    By Brett Eastman, Dee Eastman, Todd Wendorff and

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    What does it mean to surrender to God? These six sessions will help you experience the transforming power of a surrendered life. As you learn to worship Christ throughout you daily life, you will come to trust him with the experiences of your past, the precious things of your present, and your hopes for the future. What are you holding onto? Discover the peace of laying it at God’s feet. “Doing Life Together is a groundbreaking study…[It’s] the first small group curriculum built completely on the purpose-driven paradigm…The greatest reason I’m excited about [it] is that I’ve seen the dramatic changes it produces in the lives of those who study it.” —From the foreword by Rick Warren

    Based on the five biblical purposes that form the bedrock of Saddleback Church, Doing Life Together will help your group discover what God created you for and how you can turn this dream into an everyday reality. Experience the transformation firsthand as you begin Connecting, Growing, Developing, Sharing, and Surrendering your life together for him.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherZondervan
    Release dateJun 21, 2011
    ISBN9780310865544
    Surrendering Your Life for God's Pleasure: Six Sessions on Worship
    Author

    Brett Eastman

    Brett Eastman has championed small groups and leadership development at both Saddleback and Willow Creek Community Church over the past decade. He is president and founder of LifeTogether, and one of the authors of the Silver Medallion winner Doing LifeTogether, the adult curriculum published by Zondervan.

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      Surrendering Your Life for God's Pleasure - Brett Eastman

      SURRENDERING YOUR

      LIFE FOR GOD’S PLEASURE

      six sessions on

      worship

      written by

      BRETT and DEE EASTMAN

      TODD and DENISE WENDORFF

      KAREN LEE-THORP

      Contents

      Cover

      Title Page

      FOREWORD

      READ ME FIRST DOING LIFE TOGETHER

      SESSION 1 BECOMING A WORSHIPER

      SESSION 2 HOW BIG IS YOUR GOD?

      SESSION 3 SURRENDERING YOUR PAST

      SESSION 4 SURRENDERING YOUR FUTURE

      SESSION 5 SURRENDERING YOUR SUBSTITUTES

      SESSION 6 THE CROWN OF LIFE

      FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

      APPENDIX PURPOSE-DRIVEN GROUP AGREEMENT

      APPENDIX SMALL GROUP CALENDAR

      APPENDIX PURPOSE TEAM ROLES

      APPENDIX PURPOSE-DRIVEN LIFE HEALTH ASSESSMENT

      APPENDIX PURPOSE-DRIVEN LIFE HEALTH PLAN

      APPENDIX SPIRITUAL PARTNERS’ CHECK-IN PAGE

      APPENDIX SERVING COMMUNION

      APPENDIX MEMORY VERSES

      APPENDIX DAILY DEVOTIONAL READINGS

      APPENDIX PRAYER AND PRAISE REPORT

      SAMPLE JOURNAL PAGE

      LEADERSHIP TRAINING

      Small Group Leadership 101 (Top Ten Ideas for New Facilitators)

      Small Group Leadership Lifters (Weekly Leadership Tips)

      LEADER’S NOTES SESSION ONE BECOMING A WORSHIPER

      LEADER’S NOTES SESSION TWO HOW BIG IS YOUR GOD?

      LEADER’S NOTES SESSION THREE SURRENDERING YOUR PAST

      LEADER’S NOTES SESSION FOUR SURRENDERING YOUR FUTURE

      LEADER’S NOTES SESSION FIVE SURRENDERING YOUR SUBSTITUTES

      LEADER’S NOTES SESSION SIX THE CROWN OF LIFE

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      ABOUT THE AUTHORS

      SMALL GROUP ROSTER

      Here’s what people are saying about the DOING LIFE TOGETHER Series …

      Other Studies in the DOING LIFE TOGETHER Series

      Copyright

      About the Publisher

      Share Your Thoughts

      FOREWORD

      Over twenty-five years ago I noticed a little phrase in Acts 13:36 that forever altered the direction of my life. It read, David had served God’s purpose in his own generation. I was fascinated by that simple yet profound summary of David’s life, and I determined to make it the goal of my life, too. I would seek to discover and fulfill the purposes for which God had created me.

      This decision provoked a number of questions: What are God’s purposes for putting us on earth? What does a purpose-driven life look like? How can the church enable people to fulfill God’s eternal purposes? I read through the Bible again and again, searching for the answers to these questions. As a direct result of what I learned, my wife, Kay, and I decided to start Saddleback Church and build it from the ground up on God’s five purposes for us (which are found in the New Testament).

      In the living laboratory of Saddleback Church, we were able to experiment with different ways to help people understand, apply, and live out the purposes of God. I’ve written two books about the lessons we’ve learned (The Purpose-Driven Church and, more recently, The Purpose-Driven Life). As other churches became interested in what we were doing, we began sharing the tools, programs, and studies we developed at Saddleback. Over a million copies of The Purpose-Driven Church are now in print in some nineteen languages, and The Purpose-Driven Class Curriculum (Class 101–401) is now used in tens of thousands of churches around the world. We hope that the same will be true for this exciting new small group curriculum.

      DOING LIFE TOGETHER is a groundbreaking study in several ways. It is the first small group curriculum built completely on the purpose-driven paradigm. This is not just another study to be used in your church; it is a study on the church to help strengthen your church. Many small group curricula today are quite self-focused and individualistic. They generally do not address the importance of the local church and our role in it as believers. Another unique feature of this curriculum is its balance. In every session, the five purposes of God are stressed in some way.

      But the greatest reason I am excited about releasing this DOING LIFE TOGETHER curriculum is that I’ve seen the dramatic changes it produces in the lives of those who study it. These small group studies were not developed in some detached ivory tower or academic setting but in the day-to-day ministry of Saddleback Church, where thousands of people meet weekly in small groups that are committed to fulfilling God’s purposes. This curriculum has been tested and retested, and the results have been absolutely amazing. Lives have been changed, marriages saved, and families strengthened. And our church has grown—in the past seven years we’ve seen over 9,100 new believers baptized at Saddleback. I attribute these results to the fact that so many of our members are serious about living healthy, balanced, purpose-driven lives.

      It is with great joy and expectation that I introduce this resource to you. I am so proud of our development team on this project: Brett and Dee Eastman, Todd and Denise Wendorff, and Karen Lee-Thorp. They have committed hundreds of hours to write, teach, develop, and refine these lessons—with much feedback along the way. This has been a labor of love, as they have shared our dream of helping you serve God’s purpose in your own generation. The church will be enriched for eternity as a result.

      Get ready for a life-changing journey. God bless!

      —Pastor Rick Warren

      Pastor Rick Warren is the author of The Purpose-Driven Church and The Purpose-Driven Life [www.purposedrivenlife.com].

      READ ME FIRST

      DOING LIFE TOGETHER

      DOING LIFE TOGETHER is unique in that it was designed in community for community. Four of us have been doing life together, in one way or another, for over fifteen years. We have been in a small group together, done ministry together, and been deeply involved in each other’s lives. We have shared singleness, marriage, childbirth, family loss, physical ailments, teenage years, job loss, and, yes, even marital problems.

      Our community has not been perfect, but it has been real. We have made each other laugh beyond belief, cry to the point of exhaustion, feel as grateful as one can imagine, and get so mad we couldn’t see straight. We’ve said things we will always regret and shared moments we will never forget, but through it all we have discovered a diamond in the rough—a community that increasingly reflects the character of Jesus Christ. God has used our relationships with each other to deepen our understanding of and intimacy with him. We have come to believe that we cannot fully experience the breadth and depth of the purpose-driven life outside of loving relationships in the family of God (Ephesians 2:19–22; 4:11–13).

      Doing life together was God’s plan from the beginning of time. From the relationships of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit in the Trinity, to the twelve apostles, to the early house churches, and even Jesus’ final words in the Great Commission (Matthew 28:16–20)—all share the pattern of life together. God longs to connect all of his children in loving relationships that cultivate the five biblical purposes of the church deep within their hearts. With this goal in mind, we have created the DOING LIFE TOGETHER series—the first purpose-driven small group series.

      The series is designed to walk you and your group down a path, six weeks at a time over the course of a year, to help you do the purpose-driven life together. There are six study guides in this series. You can study them individually,

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