2020 and beyond
Start a new decade with a realistic and heavenly outlook. Do not think about your life in months or weeks, start with eternity and decades and then look at your daily rhythm.
“An ordinary can become an extraordinary.
The natural can be filled with the supernatural.
The common can be elevated to the divine. ”
Instead of trying year after year to reinvent yourself according to the cultural expectations, undiscovered internal pressures and confusing social messages, seek your purpose and rhythm of life instead in the Life Everlasting by discovering your natural and supernatural gifts, setting your heart on a pilgrimage of intentional sacrifice that brings peace and joy in the midst of chaos of the unknown.
Space is limited to ensure individual attention.
1920’s in the West were called roaring for redefining culture and arts, bringing mass consumerism, questioning the moral standards and the position of women, offering novel technological advances, governmental restrictions, political uproars and challenging Christian religious values. One hundred years later we could say similar things about the post-Christian era we are entering into, wondering how to live, what to focus on, how to respond to the internal and outward pressures and expectations. The current trends bring, instead of the optimism of the roaring 20’s, anxiety, mental health issues and fear of the future, global and individual, to the front of people’s thoughts. Decisions you will make today will affect your whole life. During this course you will get an insight into the timeless principles of Jesus heart desires for you and Christian tradition answering all the challenges we are facing in a proactive instead of retroactive ways.
Engaging with the Creator of all things is the point of reference in everything you should do, so your productivity, effectiveness, goals, career and life choices plus your lifestyle should be immersed in the expectations of the supernatural interventions that will guide you and co-create reality that will impact everything you touch in this realm and bring it to the Kingdom reality.
Each week will have a different topic and focus to help you to discern, determine and commit to start living the most fruitful decade of your life.
week 1: self-care
How to deal with my self. How to see where God is taking me on my journey to His Presence. How to cultivate attentiveness to start transformational process of becoming who I am created to be.
Focus practice: Power received in prayer, self-examination in the Presence fo God
week 2: Influence
A sobering look at the influences I am under and the need to surrender to the King of Kings in order to walk in His authority, compassion and meekness. Seeking wisdom in searching for spiritual masters, fathers and mothers of faith.
Focus practice: Asceticism in the Holy Spirit that produces spiritual grit
week 3: Belonging
Craving for belonging can be satisfied by God alone and the community of sons and daughters, brothers and sisters.
Focus practice: Creating an environment for healthy intellectual, spiritual and communal growth
week 4: Success
Paradoxical biblical principles of success brought to the the 21st century. Getting ready to lay one’s life for the Kingdom of God
Focus practice: Establishing Vision for Life (developing gifts, persevering in actions, building integrity and character)
week 5: Mystery
Crossing the threshold to the realm of Divine. Seeing the Unseen, singing the unsung, following the path of self-offering.
Focus practice: Contemplation leading to engagement
week 6: Legacy
The end is nearer than you think. Human wisdom and understanding is not enough to respond to the call for re-creating Heart of the World. You need to become a new creation.
Focus practice: Deep listening.
week 7: Rhythm of life
Establishing the rule and rhythm of life with humility of Christ incarnated, in the Love of the Father and with boldness in the Holy Spirit.
Focus practice: Writing my Rule and Rhythm of Life
““You perceive it in the depths of your heart: all that is good on earth, all professional success, even the human love that you dream of, can never fully satisfy your deepest and most intimate desires. Only an encounter with Jesus can give full meaning to your lives.””
Instructor:
Iwona Bednarz-Major, Co-Founder and Director of Stone to Flesh and MajorChange, Polish missionary in the US since 2003, former missionary in Poland, Russia, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, founder of HalleluJah Community in Wroclaw, Poland and Encounter Community in Steubenville, OH.
What can you expect:
Seven weekly live video sessions (real time interactive video participation):
Each session is 30 min teaching and 15 min Q&A and sharing.
You get a weekly assignment (via Google Classroom), an outline, and a private link video file for your personal use with permanent access.
Books and ideas resources for further development
Expected home assignment: 15 min daily prayer and 15 min daily practicum
What you will need:
Bible (paper, not digital)
Journal, pen
Cost:
$70 per person ($10 per session)
$105 per couple (50% discount for a spouse)
$175 per small group (three to six people) if you want to initiate one for the purpose of this course and/or continue after the course is done
for groups of seven or more contact: iwona@stonetoflesh.org
This course is built on fundamentals that all Missionaries of Stone to Flesh strive to live by.
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