More from Rick Warren's Jesus Model of Healing and Life's Healing Choices...
And if you want to do Life’s Healing Choices with us, the end result is that emphasis will end after eight weeks but the groups will continue. And we once started over two thousand small groups with one campaign, with one emphasis; and the way we did it, as I said, I need you to become a host.
...but we can help you start groups and then we can help you sustain them because we are creating the Sunday school material of the 21st century.
My sinful habits and patterns of life, I’ve spent a lifetime developing them and I’m not going to get over them overnight. And so there’s a process of growth, and that’s really what the Beatitudes are. It takes us through these eight steps that starts with stopping the denial. I God I know I need you—
The reality is we grow through a step-by-step process and it’s a sequential growth process, and of course here at Saddleback we call it a Purpose Driven process. You don’t have to call it that, just call it the Jesus Process. It’s one day at a time one step at a time.
Number seven—this is really important too—Jesus modeled for us over and over again that change requires multiple reinforcement. Change requires multiple reinforcement. And I talked about this earlier in that, growing up, I saw people who went to church every week for forty years and didn’t change. Why? They only had one reinforcement: they were using the ear gate; they heard things. But we forget ninety to ninety-five percent of what we hear within seventy-two hours; so it just goes out the next day. That means by Wednesday people have forgotten ninety-five percent of what the pastor says.
That means over—I taught at Saddleback for thirty years, because if my people aren’t taking notes they’ve forgotten ninety-five percent of everything I’ve taught. So you have to have the ear gate—hear it; you got to have the eye gate—read it; you got to have the mouth gate—talk it, discuss it; you got to have the hands and feet gate—do it; you got to have the mind gate—memorize it; and this is what we call the multiple reinforcement of the spiritual boot camp. The multiple reinforcement of a spiritual journey experience campaign.
The only way to be blessed is to teach our people through multiple reinforcement. And we’ve been doing this now for well over twenty years, we figured out how to do this and that’s why the members at Saddleback grow so fast. Multiple learning styles—
—Multiple reinforcements. You’re going to need some tools to change and we’ll talk to you if you want to be a part of our next journey together.
Lasting change requires developing new habits, lasting change requires developing new habits. Jesus said it like this, “you can’t put new wine in” what?—
"Old wine skins.” You got to have new wine skins. These are the new habits and you are the sum total of your habits. And what we do in these spiritual journeys is we teach people basic habits that are going to go on long after the one month, the two month, the three months or forty days or six weeks or eight weeks they continue in the quiet time, they continue in Scripture memory, they continue in their small group. Your people are only as strong as their spiritual habits. Now, for two thousand years they were called the spiritual disciplines, they were called the devotional acts, the devotional life, and we call them habits because if we call the disciplines it sounds kind of— —I don’t want discipline.
We call them devotional practices; you know, quiet time and tithing and fellowship and fastening and listening. They are the habits of spiritual growth; and during Life’s Healing Choices journey we’re going to do the habit of quiet time, the Habit of small group, and the habit of self-evaluation, and a number of other habits that are necessary for growth.
Number nine— a truly changed life, a truly transformed life—oh by the way, at the same time a truly transformed church—what is the mark of a genuinely transformed church or generally transformed life? The answer is reproduction.
How do you know when a church is mature, it starts reproducing. It starts having baby churches. How do you know when a believer is mature, it starts having other baby Christians.
Now, these are the nine foundations of where we’re going this fall in the Life’s Healing Choices campaign because Jesus gave us the Beatitudes which are the steps for spiritual transformation.
In the Q&A session Rick Warren asks Celebrate Recovery founder John Baker "How many people have gone through the process of the Beatitudes now, the recovery process?"
John Baker stated that over 11,000 people have gone through Celebrate Recovery, he described it as a step study.
Oh, it’s an evangelism tool that you can’t get better than the word of Jesus, the Beatitudes, it’s an evangelism tool and it is a leadership factory. No ministry—we have over four hundred ministries in our church—no ministry has produced more leaders than Celebrate Recovery in this church, in children’s ministry, student ministry, music ministry, and everything else.
And if you want to do Life’s Healing Choices with us, the end result is that emphasis will end after eight weeks but the groups will continue. And we once started over two thousand small groups with one campaign, with one emphasis; and the way we did it, as I said, I need you to become a host.
...but we can help you start groups and then we can help you sustain them because we are creating the Sunday school material of the 21st century.
My sinful habits and patterns of life, I’ve spent a lifetime developing them and I’m not going to get over them overnight. And so there’s a process of growth, and that’s really what the Beatitudes are. It takes us through these eight steps that starts with stopping the denial. I God I know I need you—
The reality is we grow through a step-by-step process and it’s a sequential growth process, and of course here at Saddleback we call it a Purpose Driven process. You don’t have to call it that, just call it the Jesus Process. It’s one day at a time one step at a time.
Number seven—this is really important too—Jesus modeled for us over and over again that change requires multiple reinforcement. Change requires multiple reinforcement. And I talked about this earlier in that, growing up, I saw people who went to church every week for forty years and didn’t change. Why? They only had one reinforcement: they were using the ear gate; they heard things. But we forget ninety to ninety-five percent of what we hear within seventy-two hours; so it just goes out the next day. That means by Wednesday people have forgotten ninety-five percent of what the pastor says.
That means over—I taught at Saddleback for thirty years, because if my people aren’t taking notes they’ve forgotten ninety-five percent of everything I’ve taught. So you have to have the ear gate—hear it; you got to have the eye gate—read it; you got to have the mouth gate—talk it, discuss it; you got to have the hands and feet gate—do it; you got to have the mind gate—memorize it; and this is what we call the multiple reinforcement of the spiritual boot camp. The multiple reinforcement of a spiritual journey experience campaign.
The only way to be blessed is to teach our people through multiple reinforcement. And we’ve been doing this now for well over twenty years, we figured out how to do this and that’s why the members at Saddleback grow so fast. Multiple learning styles—
—Multiple reinforcements. You’re going to need some tools to change and we’ll talk to you if you want to be a part of our next journey together.
Lasting change requires developing new habits, lasting change requires developing new habits. Jesus said it like this, “you can’t put new wine in” what?—
"Old wine skins.” You got to have new wine skins. These are the new habits and you are the sum total of your habits. And what we do in these spiritual journeys is we teach people basic habits that are going to go on long after the one month, the two month, the three months or forty days or six weeks or eight weeks they continue in the quiet time, they continue in Scripture memory, they continue in their small group. Your people are only as strong as their spiritual habits. Now, for two thousand years they were called the spiritual disciplines, they were called the devotional acts, the devotional life, and we call them habits because if we call the disciplines it sounds kind of— —I don’t want discipline.
We call them devotional practices; you know, quiet time and tithing and fellowship and fastening and listening. They are the habits of spiritual growth; and during Life’s Healing Choices journey we’re going to do the habit of quiet time, the Habit of small group, and the habit of self-evaluation, and a number of other habits that are necessary for growth.
Number nine— a truly changed life, a truly transformed life—oh by the way, at the same time a truly transformed church—what is the mark of a genuinely transformed church or generally transformed life? The answer is reproduction.
How do you know when a church is mature, it starts reproducing. It starts having baby churches. How do you know when a believer is mature, it starts having other baby Christians.
Now, these are the nine foundations of where we’re going this fall in the Life’s Healing Choices campaign because Jesus gave us the Beatitudes which are the steps for spiritual transformation.
In the Q&A session Rick Warren asks Celebrate Recovery founder John Baker "How many people have gone through the process of the Beatitudes now, the recovery process?"
John Baker stated that over 11,000 people have gone through Celebrate Recovery, he described it as a step study.
Oh, it’s an evangelism tool that you can’t get better than the word of Jesus, the Beatitudes, it’s an evangelism tool and it is a leadership factory. No ministry—we have over four hundred ministries in our church—no ministry has produced more leaders than Celebrate Recovery in this church, in children’s ministry, student ministry, music ministry, and everything else.
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