ELEments
This is a 9-month intensive cohort, designed to grow you in a small group of believers, that will challenge you, grow you, build you up in community and deepen your walk with God.
By the end of the cohort, you will have taken on the Defiant Disciple Elements:
Courageous Obedience
Sacrificial Community
Extravagant Generosity
Fearless Honesty
Overflowing Honor
Courageous Obedience is a calling to surrender our thoughts under the feet of Christ, to abandon our will into God’s hands and trust that He is in full control of our lives. Courageous Obedience is learning to have the obedience to follow what God is asking us to do in our lives even if we don’t understand or agree.
Sacrificial Community is a willingness to do what is necessary for others. In Sacrificial Community you learn how to live and love others in a way that pleases God; becoming more like Jesus. A life that says your pain is my pain, your struggle is my struggle.
Fearless Honesty is the strength required to confess to God what he already knows. It's to be honest, not just to God, but to yourself as well. God already knows our hearts so we have nothing to hide. Give him our lies and he will set us free.
Overflowing Honor is the esteem we place on God and the offering of ourselves to Him as King and as Father. We acknowledge God as Lord of our lives and as the ultimate source of sacrificial love as He offered Jesus to forgive, redeem, and save us from the consequences of our own shortcomings. Due to the abundance of His love and the immeasurable grace that we have been shown, we overflow with honor for others, like our family members and other believers, regardless of whether they deserve it.
Extravagant Generosity requires giving of yourself, not to yourself. It's being all in; no strings attached. In Extravagant Generosity you learn generosity through the eyes of Jesus; the giving of your time, love and life to others without conditions. It's giving the way God gives; abundantly and without expectation.