Chazown

by GROESCHEL, CRAIG

• ISBN13: 9781601423139
• ISBN10: 1601423136
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2010-08-10
• Publisher: Multnomah

Summary

You're invited on a most unusual odyssey-to find, name, and live out your personal chazown. It's a journey you'll never forget because it's impossible to return unchanged.

Author Biography

Craig Groeschel is the founding and senior pastor of LifeChurch.tv, one of the country’s first multi-campus churches, with twenty-three weekly worship experiences at five locations. Craig, his wife, Amy, and their six children live in the Edmond, Oklahoma, area where LifeChurch.tv began in 1996. Craig and Amy’s passion, to lead people to become fully devoted followers of Christ, is the driving force behind his down-to-earth teaching that touches thousands of people weekly. Craig earned his BA in marketing from Oklahoma City University and his MDiv from Phillips Theological Seminary.

Table of Contents

Seeing Clear to the End
Why you need a new kind of vision
Your Final Chapter	p. 3
Desperate for Vision	p. 5
You're the Author: Plan Your Epitaph
Circling the Truth
Where to look for your own Chazown
Discovering Your Personal Vision	p. 19
University of Chazown	p. 21
Graduation Day	p. 23
Core Values	p. 25
Hitting the Right Target	p. 26
Spanning the Values Spectrum	p. 29
Why Do They Do It?	p. 31
The Anger-Bliss Factor	p. 34
Unverified Values	p. 36
Vacillating Values	p. 38
You're the Author: Your Core Values
Spiritual Gifts	p. 41
Keira, Red with Pie	p. 42
Doing Is Believing	p. 45
Use It or Lose It	p. 48
You're the Author: Your Spiritual Gifts
Past Experiences	p. 52
It All Happened for a Reason	p. 53
Mining Meaning from the Past	p. 55
Eyes to See	p. 57
You're the Author: Your Past Experiences
A Dream in Deed
How to name your Chazown and where to start
Three-Part Harmony	p. 63
Perfect Fit: A Case Study	p. 65
The Chazown Community	p. 68
Naming Your Chazown	p. 69
Closing In on Your Chazown	p. 70
Impossible Mission Possible!	p. 72
Of Course I Know Where I'm Going!	p. 74
God Loves You (and Everyone Else Has a Wonderful Plan for Your Life)	p. 76
You're the Author: Your Purpose Statement
Moving From Vision to Action	p. 80
Making It Up as I Go	p. 81
Even God Thinks It's a Good Idea	p. 83
How to Swallow a Moose	p. 85
The Secret of Long-Distance Dreaming	p. 86
Game-Winning Goals	p. 88
You're the Author: Your Short-Term Goals
The Very Next Step	p. 91
You're the Author: Your Very Next Step
The Five Spokes of Chazown
Where you need to succeed "small" so you can succeed big
Picture This	p. 97
Speaking of Spokes	p. 99
Total Success	p. 104
You're the Author: Self-Inventory in the Five Fundamentals
First Spoke: Relationship With God	p. 109
Like Fish Need Water	p. 110
The Accidental Disciple	p. 112
What's Your Temperature?	p. 114
The Answer Is Already Yes	p. 116
You Can Get Closer to God	p. 117
You're the Author: Your Relationship with God
Second Spoke: Relationships with People	p. 123
Observations Along the Path	p. 124
Viewing People with Purpose	p. 126
Chazown and Good Company	p. 128
As Good as It Gets?	p. 130
Biblical Bridge Repair	p. 133
Good Friend, Bad Friend	p. 135
Dropping Dead Weight	p. 137
The Journey Back	p. 139
You're the Author: Your Relationships with People
Third Spoke: Finances	p. 143
Disaster Down Under	p. 144
The Spiritual Side of Money	p. 146
Chazown and Cash	p. 148
You Can Turn Around	p. 150
Values, Vision, Victory	p. 152
Chazown with Legs	p. 155
Getting to There from Here	p. 157
It's Gotta Hurt	p. 160
You're the Author: Your Finances
Fourth Spoke: Health and Fitness	p. 163
Fast Food for Thought	p. 164
Staying Alive for God	p. 166
Myopic Me-Management	p. 168
Chazown in the Kitchen	p. 170
Every Body Needs a Little Love	p. 172
"Property of God"	p. 175
You're the Author: Your Health and Fitness
Fifth Spoke: Work	p. 179
Getting to Why	p. 180
Labor's Love Lost	p. 182
The Ladder at the Top of Everest	p. 185
Meaning in the Mundane	p. 187
You're the Author: Your Work
From Here to Eternity
Why you can't realize your Chazown alone
A New View of You	p. 195
Hazards Ahead	p. 197
We're All in School	p. 198
Moved by Accountability	p. 200
Different Kinds of Dropouts	p. 202
Fork in the Road	p. 204
Tell Me When I'm Wrong	p. 206
Tell Me When I'm Weak	p. 207
Surprise Comeback	p. 208
Living for the Second Embrace	p. 210
You're the Author: Your Accountability Plan
End Matter
Already Living with Regrets?	p. 215
My Part Is Finished-Yours Is Just Beginning	p. 218
You're the Author: My Chapter One
Chazown Conversations	p. 220
Learning from Past Experiences	p. 227
Clarifying Your Core Values and Spiritual Gifts	p. 232
Notes	p. 236
Acknowledgments	p. 237
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Excerpts

Part 1

Seeing Clear to the End

Why you need a new kind of vision

Your Final Chapter
Most people take a long time to die.
(This is no way to start a book, you say.)
   But think about it. There are those few who go suddenly. Accidents. Heart attacks. Gang shootings. A soapy slip off the edge of the tub. But for you, chances are that at the end of your life, you will die in bed. Waiting.
   And while you wait, you will very likely have days, weeks, even years to think, to look back on your life.
   Imagine yourself there, lying in bed and reflecting. Reading back through the chapters of your life story.
   What did my life add up to?
   Did I really matter?
   What did I live for?
   Who will remember me?
   What will they say about me when I’m gone?
   Why was it important that I existed?
   So many questions. So much time. Will you lie there with no regrets? Some regrets? Nothing but regrets?
   Imagine.
   Or not. I mean, you’ll probably have time to think about it when you get to that bed. So you could just wait. (Millions do.) See what comes. Wait until the final pages of your life story to see how it reads to you then.
   But that’s no way to end the story of your life.
   Here’s one more thing to think about: the decisions you are making today are actually making the bed you will lie in while you wait to die.
   Which is why I wrote this book. To help you see your life differently, to see it the way your Creator saw it before you were born. And to live it with purpose and passion.
   Starting now.