The Purpose Driven Life (Day 29-35)

(Chapter 29) When are we fully alive?

• When we’re helping others

• When we give our life for a career, a sport, a hobby, fame, wealth…

• When we love and serve others selfishly

• When we’re more interested in “serve us” than service

(Chapter 30) In this book, what does SHAPE stand for?

• Your abilities, interests, talents, personality, and life experiences

• Your life unique heartbeat, thumbprints, eye prints, and voice prints

• Spiritual gifts, Heart, Abilities, Personality, Experience

• All of them

(Chapter 30) What is Not true about spiritual gifts?

• God gives every believer spiritual gifts to be used in ministry

• You can’t earn or deserve them, they are God’s grace

• No single gift is given to everyone

• They were given for your own benefit

(Chapter 30) How do you know when you are serving God from your heart?

• Your enthusiasm and effectiveness

• Things that you get

• Achieve “the good life” instead of “the better life”

• Serve God dutifully, not passionately

(Chapter 31) Why is the most common excuses for not serving, “I just don’t have any abilities to offer”, ludicrous?

• You have many of untapped, unrecognized, and unused abilities

• God has given each of us the ability to do certain things well

• Average person possesses from 500 to 700 different skills and abilities

• All of them

(Chapter 31) What experiences does God use the most to prepare you for ministry?

• Family and educational experiences

• Vocational and spiritual experiences

• Ministry experiences (How you have served God)

• Painful experiences (problems, hurts, thorns, trials)

(Chapter 32) Which way can help you accept and enjoy your shape?

• Gratefully accept the way God has fashioned you

• Recognizing your limitations

• Not to compare yourselves with others

• Refusing to be distracted by criticism or comparing…

• All of them

(Chapter 33) How can you know if you have the heart of a servant and are the real servant?

• Available to serve, pay attention to needs

• Do your best, and do every task with equal dedication

• Faithful to your ministry, maintain a low profile

• All of them

(Chapter 34) Which attitude is Not in a mindset of God’s real servants?

• Think more about others than about themselves

• Think like owners, not stewards

• Base their identity in Christ

• Think of ministry as an opportunity, not an obligation

(Chapter 35) What is Not in “the model of Paul” when he allowed God to work through his weaknesses for God’s glory?

• Admit and be content with weaknesses

• Deny strengths

• Glory in weaknesses

• All of them