CHRI 6312 WEEK EIGHT REFLECTION PAPER

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Running head: WEEK EIGHT REFLECTION PAPER 1 Week Eight Reflection Paper Ora Wilson CHRI 6312 October 20, 2023 Brett Dutton

WEEK EIGHT REFLECTION PAPER 2 Contents Contents…………………………………………………………………………………………..2 Introduction………………………………………………………………………………………3 How did I do in keeping the calendar….……………………………………………………….4 How did it help me manage my time……………………………………………………………4 How did it reflect the actual demands of ministry upon my time…………………….…….4-5 What should I have budgeted more time for? Less time.…………………………………...5-6 Where do I still sense holes in my leadership? In my experience…………………………….6 What topics do I need to think through further in order to be prepared for my current or future ministry context……………………………………………………………………..….6-7 What practices and disciplines are needed to sustain me in ministry…………………..…….7 How has my definition of discipleship changed, grown, or been altered……………………..8 Explain leisure time with family, friends, or other people…………………………………….9 Conclusion………………………………………………………………………………………..9 Bibliography…………...……………………………………………………………………..…10

WEEK EIGHT REFLECTION PAPER 3 Introduction Based on all that I have learned during this class. This paper will be sure and include significant comments about my calendar submitted during Module/Week 1, which will include questions such as: How did I do in keeping the calendar? How did it help me manage my time? How did it reflect the actual demands of ministry upon my time? What should I have budgeted more time for? Less time? What kinds of changes do I need to implement going forward? Where do I still sense holes in my leadership? In my experience? What topics do I need to think through further in order to be prepared for my current or future ministry context? What practices and disciplines are needed to sustain me in ministry? How has my definition of discipleship changed, grown, or been altered? Explain leisure time with family, friends, or other people.

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WEEK EIGHT REFLECTION PAPER 4 How did I do in keeping the calendar? The Rule of Life calendar that I created was well-structured and designed. The calendar included a detailed daily plan from Monday through Sunday. I must admit that I have been living my life like the energized battery pink bunny, I just keep going and going, and doing and doing. I truly thank God for speaking to me and leading me to seek, study, and learn more about Him and His Amazing Son Jesus Christ. I am also grateful for this class and Dr. Brett Dutton for taking the time to teach me and the other students. I never thought of having and creating a daily plan for my life, but now I realize just how important this is to have a manageable daily life instead of a confused life. Not only has this rule of life calendar also helped me to create a week-in-view calendar that will help me manage my time during this 8-week course, and for the rest of my life. This calendar starts with waking up and ends with going to bed and includes time for devotions, family, study, ministry-related meals, regular meetings, public worship, office work, and any other events or demands on my time that are recurring. How did it help me manage my time? Before this class, my life was a mess with no structure. I wake up, pray, and thank God for another day and another chance to get it right and do better than I did the day before. I go to work, come home, get lessons, get groceries, clean house, cook, study, help others, babysit grandchildren, and so on. Thank you Dr. Dutton I now have a managed and successful rule-of- life calendar plan for every day of the week. This allows me to know what I have to do every day from the time that I wake up, and if something I need to cut out or reduce the time I spend to eliminate stress or do something else at a convenient time for me. How did it reflect the actual demands of ministry upon my time? This reflection has helped me to know and realize that not only in my ministry but

WEEK EIGHT REFLECTION PAPER 5 ministries all over the world demands and priorities know that preaching and teaching are nothing new but have been around for many years even when I was a child and before me, Jesus Himself preached and taught throughout the Bible and throughout the Books of the Bible. We studied books in Sunday school, Bible study, and even in our homes and schools we read, meditate, study, learn of God, keep His commandments, trust, and obey Him, and grow spiritually. However, all through church history at least the churches that love the Bible and are filled with spiritually mature believers have been tested and proven as a piece of advice and demands of ministry. And a guide to following Jesus. Now, this also helped me to realize that ministries should focus more on expositional preaching when we have a discussion concerning preaching through books of the Bible. We read in their given context and turn over the divine truths in the course of time to find what they bring about for us today, the word exposition means to lift out of the text the meaning of the original author. We need to learn how we are to respond to it today and find out the true meaning of what the bible teaches, which is the most important Book of all learning when you really want to know how God expects us to live a Holy Spirit- filled life that is pleasing to Him. Expositional preaching happens to be most beneficial in that style of preaching because it takes the whole book into detail and helps those who read and learn it understand it in an open-minded and advanced way, therefore it is not limited to studies through books. Allowing the hearers to understand the big picture of not just the book, but the bible is what expositional preaching is all about (North Run Church, 2023). What should I have budgeted more time for? Less time? I should have budgeted less time for babysitting, and more time for homework, and my noonday prayer and reflection on God’s Word with the grandchildren active and singing and

WEEK EIGHT REFLECTION PAPER 6 praying. My schedule was pretty full, but I realized that I needed to make some drastic changes to my life and daily schedule like finding a day job and this would most likely help and just maybe I can find time for me. I am just going for everyone, and I never get a chance to really have family time or any leisure, pleasure, or relaxation time to rest, this will definitely change. What kinds of changes do I need to implement going forward? I will demand that my daughter find a daycare, father, friend, or someone else to help babysit her children and my grandchildren. I work all week, study get lessons, and babysit all weekend, and I am so tired of this, but I love my daughter and grandchildren so much that my life revolves around them. This has definitely got to change as well. Where do I still sense holes in my leadership? In my experience? Discipleship reading in Matt 28:19-20, that from all nations Jesus commands us to go and make disciples. As disciples of God and Christ Jesus, we are expected to help equip everyone that we possibly can toward spiritual growth and maturity, we are committed and held accountable to teaching new believers the Word of God. When we dedicate our life to Jesus Christ and agree to follow His teaching and way of living a holy and righteous life through individual one-on-one meetings, Bible group study, and event meetings, this is when discipleship happens. I still sense that I have holes in this area, this is the main reason for my studying to be a Christian Leader of God’s people, to gain proper knowledge and learn how to lead others to Christ Jesus. What topics do I need to think through further in order to be prepared for my current or future ministry context? I like the topic concerning faith, for we know all we need is faith the size of a mustard seed and the Kingdom Of God . Now, believers know that it is impossible to please God without

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WEEK EIGHT REFLECTION PAPER 7 faith, meaning we need faith, obedience, prayer, and patience, which makes this process of building God’s kingdom very simple. I know and believe, and I pray that many come to know that God is the king of Kings, His kingdom is not about power and control but love and grace. As amateurs and followers of Christ Jesus, however, the shock is almost hidden in our minds, actions, and obedience, for it is in our human nature to resist the power of God before we submit fully and completely. What practices and disciplines are needed to sustain me in ministry? We all should know as believers that faith without works is dead, biblical examples of spiritual disciplines for personal spiritual growth include Bible study, prayer, meditation, and fasting, these practices of spiritual disciplines, will definitely be a pillar to our spiritual growth in Christ Jesus. These are described as inward disciplines. Now outward practices are guidance, confession, celebration, service, separateness, obedience, and humility, while business practices are worship. There are many other names for spiritual disciplines and not all in the same ways they have been grouped differently. However, they bring into being the same benefit: spiritual growth and a deeper relationship with God are of the essence in all of these practices. How has my definition of discipleship changed, grown, or been altered? It is a wonderful thing how my definition of discipleship has changed and grown me spiritually, so I can be in touch with God, communicate, and feel close to Him, Bible study as a discipline helps guide me through life and also allows Christians to know God and His ways. I believe that I can do all things through Christ who strengthens us, and when we finally realize after falling down and getting back up, that he more we know God, the more our lives, things we use to do, or say and our thinking changes to want to be more and more like Jesus (Lifeway Voices, 2021).

WEEK EIGHT REFLECTION PAPER 8 Prayer is our way of communicating and talking to God our Father who are in Heaven, we tell Him about all our troubles, pain, and sorrows, we worship Him, praise Him for who He is and what He has already done, about to do, we thank God for everything we have and do, oh I can go on and on. So, prayer as a discipline opens up a line of communication with the God who created the world. The Bible tells us, as we read in (Philippians 4:6) “Don’t worry about anything, but in everything, through prayer and petition with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.” All things are possible when believers pray in faith (Lifeway Voices, 2021). We are supposed to meditate on God’s word day and night it helps provide spiritual benefits for believers that will not and cannot be received by any other resources regarding Meditation as a discipline. The Bible promises as we read in (Isaiah 26:3) “You will keep the mind that is dependent on you in perfect peace, for it is trusting in you.” Therefore, no matter what is going on around us, with God we can know perfect peace (Lifeway Voices, 2021). When we face danger and the troubles of the world, family issues, death, loss of job, home, drugs, alcohol, and thinking of harming others, we need to fast and pray in private. Fasting as a discipline clears our minds from all other distractions and helps us to focus our attention directly on God. As a witness of fasting and praying to a godly fast, I can assure you that there can be great benefits. We read in (Isaiah 58:6) that Isaiah said, “Isn’t this the fast I choose: To break the chains of wickedness, to untie the ropes of the yoke, to set the oppressed free, and to tear off every yoke?” (Lifeway Voices, 2021). Explain leisure time with family, friends, or other people. Leisure time with family, friends, or other people plays a valuable role in a successful spiritual life. Whether it be with your church family, born family such as children, grandchildren, uncles, aunts, cousins, or friends and acquaintances, it is life to the soul, mind,

WEEK EIGHT REFLECTION PAPER 9 body, and spirit when you communicate have fun, play games, go on vacations, study, pray, and read together. It helps the mind and body to relax, be happy, enjoy, and forget all about your worries, pain, work, and other stressful things that weigh us down daily. Just a call to say I love you, or I just called to check and see if you are okay. It is important to have leisure time with family, friends, or other people and schedule it in your everyday rule of life calendar and schedule. Conclusion Based on all that I have learned during this class. This paper has included significant comments about my calendar submitted during Module/Week 1, which will include questions such as: How did I do in keeping the calendar? How did it help me manage my time? How did it reflect the actual demands of ministry upon my time? What should I have budgeted more time for? Less time? What kinds of changes do I need to implement going forward? Where do I still sense holes in my leadership? In my experience? What topics do I need to think through further in order to be prepared for my current or future ministry context? What practices and disciplines are needed to sustain me in ministry? How has my definition of discipleship changed, grown, or been altered? Explain leisure time with family, friends, or other people.

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WEEK EIGHT REFLECTION PAPER 10 Bibliography Follow The Guidelines of Jesus - Help Sharing the Gospel igotell.org https://www.igotell.org (.2023) What Are Spiritual Disciplines? (2021, Jul 21). Retrieved from Lifeway Voices https://voices.lifeway.com > disciples-evangelism Why I Preach Through Books of the Bible North Run Baptist Church https://www.northrun.church › pastors-blog › why-i-p.. (2023).