Discerning God's Mission or Purpose: Making Decisions Wisely
Online Workshop facilitated by Dr Omar Djoeandy
Author of Redefining Success according to Jesus
Discover blind spots and barriers to our discerning and decision-making. Explore a process that seeks to be holistic, inter-dependent in community and help us exercise our God-given capacity to choose.
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Saturdays 16, 23 & 30 November 2024: Online 4 to 5.30 PM AEDT (Sydney)
When making significant decisions, how do you manage the tensions between God’s will, other people’s advice, conflicting values and our freedom to choose? Many sincere Christians struggle to discern how God has uniquely shaped them for His purpose and mission.
Do you wish you could be sure and confident in knowing God’s plan for your life?
How can we overcome our blind spots, anxiety, fears, and analysis paralysis to make wise, timely decisions?
Who will benefit?
Anyone seeking to know God’s purpose for their life or facing significant decisions, or if you are helping others to make wise and timely decisions:
- What has God created me for?
- Where does my life fit into the incredible story of God’s mission?
- Where is the maximum overlap between my passion, gifts and God’s plan for His world?
- How can I know if I am meant to stay in my job, change career, do further studies, leave secular employment, become a missionary, or do business as a mission?
- Is there a decision-making process that can overcome unhealthy individualism, self-reliance and analysis paralysis?
What might you gain from the workshop?
- Discover your blind spots in decision-making, e.g., being overly focused on information and middle-class values and neglecting other factors.
- Identify and seek to overcome your anxiety, FOMO, analysis paralysis and other barriers.
- Understand the Dot Vs. Circle Theories of God’s will.
- Connect with the real Jesus of the Bible and receive His help.
- Identify how God uniquely created you.
- Learn about a discerning and decision-making process that seeks to be Biblical, holistic, and interdependent.
- A checklist to understand yourself and the essentials for wise decisions.
- Inspiration to exercise your God-given capacity to choose.
Watch Omar describe the course here.
Explore a process that seeks to be Biblical, holistic, and interdependent.
Cost
1. $99 for the three weeks – per device, up to 2 people.
2. Invite friends for only $40 per additional device.
3. Group of 3 or more on 1 Device: $199
Discount available upon request to info@redefiningsuccess.com.au
For more information, email info@redefiningsuccess.com.au
Thursdays, 28 November and 5 December 2024: Online 7.15–8.45 PM (Sydney)
Being an effective visiting speaker is more challenging than a minister preaching to their congregation.
What we learnt about preaching at Bible college assumes the audience knows us. As a stranger, in 30 minutes or less, you must:
- Connect meaningfully with your audience’s heart, mind and spirit.
- Earn their trust (unless you are famous).
- Inspire and inform Biblically.
- Call to action unapologetically but without manipulation.
- Represent your organisation.
Are you ready to improve so you can engage more churches and people in God’s mission?
Join me in discovering the approaches and skills a visiting speaker must practice differently to be effective.
Who will benefit?
Anyone who shares with an audience where they are not known, e.g. another church, Bible study, organisation, or context, especially:
- Mission, NFP and para-church leaders, representatives and mobilisers.
- Pastors with a unique message for other churches.
- People raising prayer and financial supporters.
- Donor relations
What might you gain from the workshop?
- Discover your blind spots, e.g. where you might be overly focused on information and neglect other essentials.
- Define effectiveness and identify areas to improve
- Identify your strengths and weaknesses
- Learn about the ‘Heart, head, hand, heart’ paradigm and other essentials.
- A checklist to understand and engage your audience.
- Understand your own heart – what makes being a visiting speaker important to you?
Cost
1. $69 for the two weeks – per device, up to 2 people.
2. Group of 3 or more on 1 Device: $ 149
Discount available upon request to info@redefiningsuccess.com.au
Introducing Dr Omar Djoeandy
Omar’s career includes serving as a General Practitioner in Sydney and Nairobi, a church minister in Kenya, and National Director of SIM Australia for 15 years. Now, he is a SIM Missions Consultant, coach and speaker. In 2020 he published Redefining Success according to Jesus – redefiningsuccess.com.au
Omar is ethnically Chinese, born in Indonesia and has been an Australian since 10. Omar met his wife Kay, an American, in Kenya. Kay is a counsellor, and they have three adult children.
DISCERNING Q & A
1. What if I cannot attend all three sessions?
Participants are encouraged to attend all three sessions for maximum benefit. However, we accept that is not always possible.
Each session’s recording will be available within a few days, and we encourage you to watch as soon as possible and do the assignments.
2. What if my spouse, partner or friend wants to join us?
We value community and journeying together and believe major decisions are best made inter-dependently with others. So we are pleased to extend a 50% discount on the fee you paid per additional person.
3. What if I can join but need to be driving or be with other people?
Participants are encouraged to turn on their videos and be fully engaged for maximum benefit. But, if you must drive or be in a distracting setting, it would be better for you to participate still and gain as much as you can with your video off. Please turn off your video.
Do you have a group that helps you to redefine success according to Jesus?
Join Omar and readers from other cultures as we meet weekly for Online discussions to apply the book.
Maybe,
- You suffer the ‘never enough syndrome’ – ‘my career, house, lifestyle … are not enough and I am not good enough’.
- You are exhausted trying o keep up the image of success and feel more like a failure.
- You want to be a success in the eyes of Jesus and enjoy contentment, find courage, and experience community.
- You’ve read portions of the book but are struggling to experience life transformation.
Then, you are invited to:
- Connect with the real Jesus, receive His help and be transformed by Jesus.
- Progress from good intentions to action.
- Experience mutual support and accountability.
You will be inspired and helped to:
- Identify definitions of success that are harming you and your family.
- Connect more deeply with the real Jesus of the Bible.
- Place your security and identity in ‘Being God’s Children’.
- Be Kingdom-focused in community.
- Be motivated by love instead of guilt, shame or fear.
Interested?
Email us on info@redefiningsuccess.org.au.
You can join as:
Individual or couple using one device – RRP AU $199.(1)
Group of three or more who will watch, discuss and pray together either in-person or in the same breakout room – RRP AU $499.(2)
You will receive a free Redefining Success according to Jesus e-Book for every member.
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Topics - 90 minutes per week:
To gain the most from the Redefining Success Challenge you need to invest:
- A heart open to the real Jesus to inspire, convict, change and empower us.
- Attend weekly meetings or watch the replay.
- Time each week to read the relevant sections of the book, reflect and journal. Up to you to schedule short daily sessions, or fewer but longer sessions, etc.
We suggest a minimum of 3 hours per week because life transformation is not a quick fix. - A 15-minute conversation on your application with at least one other person each week.
100% money-back guarantee(3)
Student and low to median income participants from countries listed 67 and above on Human Development Index(4) can apply for a further discount at info@redefiningsuccess.com.au
You can be part of a journey that will inspire, surprise, challenge and potentially transform you.
Looking forward to seeing you there,
Omar
(1) 50% Scholarship available to individuals or groups facing financial distress. Email info@redefiningsuccess.com.au to apply. We don’t want anyone to miss out!
(2) Group option 1: For a group that can meet in person using one device, no limit on the number of members in your group. During the challenge, you will discuss in pairs.
Group option 2: For people under lockdown and using multiple devices – a maximum of six devices per group.
(3) 100% money-back guarantee – If you have invested three hours per week in reading, reflection, prayer and application; attended a minimum of four sessions; and as an individual or half of your group are not satisfied with the progress, we will refund your payment in full.
(4) List of countries by Human Development Index – Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
