Surrendering Your Life For God's Pleasure (Book)

Zondervan

Written by: Brett Eastman, Deanna Eastman, Todd Wendorff, Denise Wendorff, Karen Lee-Thorp.

Synopsis

With six sessions in each volume, The Doing Life Together Series provides small group members with basic training on how to live healthy and balanced lives - purpose driven lives.

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 is a comprehensive study of the Purpose-Driven Life. It will help you cultivate a healthy, balanced Christian Life together with a friend, small group, or even your entire church. This experienced team of writers will take you on a spiritual journey, discovering not only what God created you for but how you can turn that dream into an everyday reality. Experience the transformation firsthand as you begin Connecting, Growing, Developing, Sharing, and Surrendering your life together for him.

Foreword 7

Acknowledgments 9

Read Me First 11

SESSION 1 Becoming a Worshiper 15

SESSION 2 How Big Is Your God? 24

SESSION 3 Surrendering Your Past 33

SESSION 4 Surrendering Your Future 42

SESSION 5 Surrendering Your Substitutes 51

SESSION 6 The Crown of Life 59

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS 65

APPENDIX

Purpose-Driven Group Agreement 67

Small Group Calendar 68

Purpose Team Roles 70

Purpose-Driven Life Health Assessment 72

Purpose-Driven Life Health Plan 74

Spiritual Partners’ Check-In Page 77

Serving Communion 78

Memory Verses 80

Daily Devotional Readings 81

Prayer and Praise Report 82

Sample Journal Page 84

LEADERSHIP TRAINING

Small Group Leadership 101 85

(Top Ten Ideas for New Facilitators)

Small Group Leadership Lifters 88

(Weekly Leadership Tips)

Leader’s Notes 93

About the Authors 107

Small Group Roster 108

Length:	112 pages
Size:	6 x 9 inches
Format:	Softcover
Publish Date:	Aug 7, 2002
Published By:	Zondervan
ISBN:	0-310-24677-6