Self-Analysis
The Spirit off God works through our humanness, utilising its gifting, minimizing the dark side of those gifts, enhancing personality, transforming character. To work with him, self-understanding is a critical dimension. It is central to the Catholic/ Mainline church concept of spiritual direction. It is not spirituality, simply an aspect of working with the Holy Spirit. He is one who empowers and transforms.
Read Danil Colitz, Are Plants Conscious?
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, a psychological theory, while lacking an empirical basis gives a framework for considering holistic growth over time.
Leadership Giftings (ppt) (Reviewed 2 modules ago)
Fivefold Ministries Questionnaire (Reviewed 2 modules ago)
Motivational Evaluation
Spiritual Checkup
Directional Spirituality
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2 Year Spiritual Development Plan
Details of a Spiritual Formation Plan
Discuss the PowerPoint Values Spirituality
Spiritual Growth is a process for a lifetime till we meet with the Lord. We need to consider God and time. His time begins and ends so it has direction. It is not cyclic, but it is periodic. There is much in the scriptures about seasons (See Ecc 3:1-11). Knowing the season can enable a wise response to that season.
What then is our lifelong goal?
And given the goal what are the stages of growth? There are two directions to explore with this:
(1) the nature of our humanness - human development as we age. Here we can draw on the social sciences.
(2) spiritual development appropriate to each stage, defined by the issues that are focal at that stage, but based on the scriptural responses to that phase.
There are a number of psychological, educational and moral theories of human development. Fowler has sought to integrate these into phases of spiritual growth.
These are further developed in the Movement Leadership course