A Journey To Being More Intentional and Inviting You Along For The Ride
Several top notch thinkers in the EFCA have put together a 4 week online class that I've been given the opportunity to participate in. It's focus is intentional living. Making sure that spiritual leaders don't drift aimlessly from project to project, staying busy, but accomplishing jack squat. Another danger is being driven by what has been called "the tyranny of the urgent". Living your day from one crisis to the next. Instead, a healthier, more efficient, and more effective method is proposed: intentional living. This is certainly applicable to the pastor, but not exclusively. This lives and breathes everywhere. I challenge you to think through this with me. Here's your first assignment and post it in the response fields and engage one another with it too:
1. What 3 words pop into your mind when you hear the phrase intentional living?
2. What are your three greatest strengths beside B.O. and telling me how I suck?
3. What historical or contemporary person do you know that models intentional living and why? (NO BIBLE CHARACTERS!)
Bring it!
1. What 3 words pop into your mind when you hear the phrase intentional living?
2. What are your three greatest strengths beside B.O. and telling me how I suck?
3. What historical or contemporary person do you know that models intentional living and why? (NO BIBLE CHARACTERS!)
Bring it!
posted by Josh Perry at
4:38 PM
4 Comments:
1 Purposeful, guided, accomplishment
2. Organization, interior decorating...does that count?, I'm struggling with a third...
3. A terminally ill person... I would assume a terminally ill person gives all activity and words serious thought before acting out or speaking; and, I would also assume priorities change; many things/feelings that were once important, fade; and vice versa. You wouldn't take your life for granted, if you truly thought your time on this earth was to end in the near future.
Thanks anonymous. I liked your word "guided" for intentional living. It brings out that we won't do this completely by ourselves. It is done in community. With encouragement and accountability and the like. I also thought it was a great observation about a person who is terminally ill. Nothing like sure death to clear away the clutter.
1. purpose, commitment, decision
2. organizational skills, people skills, computer hacking skills
3. Jim Elliot, missionary to Huaorani tribe
--Jen B.
P.S. How did Texas Hold'em go?
1. purposeful, goals, self-lessness
2. listening (even though this doesn't always mean comprehension!), attracting people to me (I am not really sure how this works, or the proper term for it, but people like me and sometimes I just don't understand why.), reserve (athough this one can also be played as a weakness.)
3. I'm going to go with Damien Rice, and I'll tell you why... I love him. I love feeling his emotion when I listen to his songs. I love that he is not all about the fame and glory, he is about expression. I think being able to share his feelings and lyrics with his audience is self-less. I love him.
Its funny this blog came along at this point in my life, I feel directionless and like I need to find direction but where and how??
I feel like I am "drifting aimlessly from project to project, staying busy, but accomplishing jack squat."
Anyways, what is B.O.? Body-odor would not be a strength.
amy lilly
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