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    Taking Responsibility for Your Life Bible Study Participant's Guide: Because Nobody Else Will
    Taking Responsibility for Your Life Bible Study Participant's Guide: Because Nobody Else Will
    Taking Responsibility for Your Life Bible Study Participant's Guide: Because Nobody Else Will
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    Taking Responsibility for Your Life Bible Study Participant's Guide: Because Nobody Else Will

    By Andy Stanley

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    In this four-session small group Bible study (DVD/digital sold separately), Andy Stanley shows you how to take authentic responsibility for the things in your life.

    RESPONSIBILITIES. We all have them. But we don't all take them as seriously as we ought to. Wouldn't it be great, though, if we all took responsibility for the things we are responsible for? Wouldn't it be great if you took responsibility for everything you're responsible for? It's time to stop the finger-pointing and excuse-making and to remove the “ir” in irresponsible.

    In this study, Stanley tells us it’s time to ask ourselves, “Am I REALLY taking responsibility for my life?”

    This Participant Guide is filled with helpful discussion starters, video overviews, a helpful Leader’s Guide and much more. 

    Sessions include:

    1. Let the Blames Begin 
    2. The Disproportionate Life 
    3. This Is No Time to Pray 
    4. Embracing Your Response Ability

    Designed for use with the Taking Responsibility for Your Life Video Study (sold separately). When used together they provide a powerful catalyst for spiritual growth.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherZondervan
    Release dateApr 24, 2013
    ISBN9780310692294
    Taking Responsibility for Your Life Bible Study Participant's Guide: Because Nobody Else Will
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    Andy Stanley

    Communicator, author, and pastor Andy Stanley founded Atlanta-based North Point Ministries (NPM) in 1995. Today, NPM consists of eight churches in the Atlanta area and a network of 180 churches around the globe that collectively serve over 200,000 people weekly. As host of Your Move with Andy Stanley, which delivers over 10.5 million messages each month through television, digital platforms, and podcasts, and author of more than 20 books, including Irresistible; Better Decisions, Fewer Regrets; and Deep & Wide, Andy is considered one of the most influential pastors in America.

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      Taking Responsibility for Your Life Bible Study Participant's Guide - Andy Stanley

      taking responsibility for

      your life

      because nobody else will

      Andy Stanley

      CONTENTS

      Cover

      Title Page

      Introduction: Who Takes It Seriously?

      Session 1: Let the Blames Begin

      Session 2: The Disproportionate Life

      Session 3: This Is No Time to Pray

      Session 4: Embracing Your Response Ability

      Leader’s Guide

      Leader’s Guide Session Notes

      About the Author

      Copyright

      About the Publisher

      Share Your Thoughts

      INTRODUCTION

      Who Takes It Seriously?

      by Andy Stanley

      When my kids were much younger, and I’d see wet towels they had left lying on the floor, sometimes I would stand by the towels and call for the kids. When they came, I’d calmly say, I’d like you to say this to me: ‘Dad, please pick up my towel and hang it up for me in the bathroom, because I was too lazy to do it myself.

      Now I’m not suggesting you do that with your kids; this video series isn’t about parenting. Who knows, the experts might even say that what I did was pretty weak as far as healthy parenting goes. I guess time will tell.

      But I just wanted to help my kids get a clearer picture of responsibility. I wanted to help them grasp the concept that being irresponsible isn’t just a personal matter; it impacts anybody and everybody who’s connected to us.

      Nothing Neutral About It

      Irresponsibility is not a neutral thing; it isn’t something that just sits on the floor and can be ignored.

      When we shirk our responsibilities, in essence we’re expecting other people to carry the burden of the messes or the chaos that we’ve created. That’s just the built-in nature and dynamics of irresponsibility.

      What’s worse, irresponsibility is contagious, especially when we see other people who seem to be getting away with it.

      The Fulfillment You Were Made For

      But you know, responsibility has its own built-in nature and dynamics as well, and they’re awesome. The fact is, we were made for responsibility. And we’re actually the most fulfilled when our lives are filled with it and we’re being faithful to those obligations.

      Think about it. When you have something important to do, and you’re doing a good job at it, don’t you just feel better about yourself? For example, one of the most encouraging things a mother can hear is her husband saying, You know, honey, you’re an incredible mother to our kids!

      It’s also why it’s

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