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NHE's Find True Identity Discipleship: basiX'— XtrategiXteps
SECOND YEARS (18 to 24 months… semi-monthly sessions—1st & 3rd or 2nd & 4th week sessions)
The 7 A’s—basiX: XtrategiXtepX: (pronounced strategic-steps) for living the Christian Life successfully.
(The 7 A's were developed by Mike and Jody Cleveland and Setting Captives Free)
Second Years are learning how to used God's Word strategically with 7 A's... how to exchange bad thinking, bad choices, and bad feelings for God’s ways through three radicals, three relationals, and one testimony… this is the longest and most difficult year of NHE’s Find True Identity Discipleship.
XtrategiXtepX is worked as follows:
THE THREE RADICALS (second years' first semester)
- Sessions 1 & 2: Radical Amputation of sins—yes, even people, places, & things that might lead to sins and sinning (Matthew 5:29; 18:9; 2 Corinthians 7:10-11)
- diagnostiX 1: work a My Bible Walk on the above Bible texts or any other text assigned (together or separately)
- diagnostiX 2: rework your My ABC Walk(s) by amputating as defined above
- diagnostiX 3: rework your My Self Walk(s) by amputating as defined above
- Sessions 3 & 4: Radical Appropriation of Jesus’ Life as one’s own true identity—one’s Life (Romans 6; Ephesians 4:17-24; Colossians 1:27; 2:13-14; 3:1-4, 15-17)
- diagnostiX 1: work a My Bible Walk on the above Bible texts or any other text assigned (together or separately)
- diagnostiX 5: work the assigned My Grace Walk(s)—the great exchange
- diagnostiX 6: work the assigned My Faith Walk(s)—the faith equation
- Sessions 5 & 6: Radical Accountability of amputation & appropriation in a community of other Christians (Proverbs 27:27; Ecclesiastes 4:9-12; James 5:16)
- diagnostiX 1: work a My Bible Walk on the above Bible texts or any other text assigned (together or separately)
- diagnostiX RA3: work a My Accountability Walk
- implement accountability memebers one by one as approved
THE THREE RELATIONALS (second years' second semester)
- Sessions 7 & 8: Constant Attachment to Jesus—i.e. a life-union of abiding in, living from, connected to Jesus as Life (John 15; 1 John; Revelation 1-5)
- diagnostiX 1: work a My Bible Walk on the above Bible texts or any other text
- diagnostiX 4: work a My Prayer Walk—the emotional compass
- diagnostiX 5: work a My Grace Walk(s)—the great exchange
- Sessions 9 & 10: Passionate Adoration of Jesus through true worship (John 4:23-24; Romans 12:1; Jude 1:24-25; Rev. 5:12)
- diagnostiX 1: work a My Bible Walk on the above Bible texts or any other text
- diagnostiX 4: work asssigned My Prayer Walk(s)—the emotional compass
- diagnostiX 6: work assigned My Faith Walk(s)—the faith equation
- diagnostiX 7: work assigned My Crazy Walk(s)—the masquerade
- Sessions 11 & 12: Accurate Affirmation about Jesus and His Life living within (Romans 5-8; 2 Cor. 5:13-17, 21; Eph. 4:17-24)
- diagnostiX 1: work a My Bible Walk on the above Bible texts or any other text
- diagnostiX 5: work assigned My Grace Walk(s)—the great exchange
- diagnostiX 7: work assigned My Crazy Walk(s)—the masquerade
- Conisder two questions:
- Who is Jesus?
- Who am I because of Jesus’ Life within
THE ONE TESTIMONY (second years' third semester)
- Sessions 13 & 14: Compelling Articulation—a growing, continual personal testimony about my freedom in Christ; those set free from sin’s hunts, haunts, and habits can’t shut up about Jesus and what He’s done. It’s IMPOSSIBLE (Psalm 71:15-16; Mark 5:20; 1 Corinthians 5:20; 1 John 1:1-4; Revelation 12:11
- diagnostiX 1: work a My Bible Walk on the above Bible texts or any other appliable text
- diagnostiX 8: work a My Life-Sketch Walk
- Sessions 15 & 16: Reviewing the 7 A's
- Share the Radicals
- Share the Relationals
- Share the Testimonial
WHAT DOES REAL FREEDOM LOOK LIKE?
From the beginning of First Year to end of Second Year, how have you come to know Jesus more intimatley? How has your relationship with God and His Word led you to know Him more deeply? How are you overcoming sin's hunts, sin's haunts, and sin's habits? In other words, what does your freedom in Christ look like today?
That's the question Pastor Ron asks every student as they move from one semester, from one year to the next. Here are some questions that might help better define what's happening in your soul:
- Are you bored or excited?
- Are you overcome by sins and sinning or overwhelmed by the freedom of God's grace and truth?
- Are you stuck or moving?
Living the Christian Life successfully isn't about having to follow the rules. It's about having a new heart that wants to live God's best Life. Such spiritual growth is defined in I John 2. Read with me from Eugene Peterson's Message:
You are my dear children, and I write these things to you so that you won’t sin. But if anyone does sin, we continually have a forgiving Redeemer who is face-to-face with the Father: Jesus Christ, the Righteous One. He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.
I remind you, my dear children: Your sins are forgiven in Jesus’ name. You veterans were in on the ground floor, and know the One who started all this; you newcomers have won a big victory over the Evil One.
And a second reminder, dear children: You know the Father from personal experience. You veterans know the One who started it all; and you newcomers—such vitality and strength! God’s word is so steady in you. Your fellowship with God enables you to gain a victory over the Evil One.
(1 John 2:1-2,12-14, the Message)
Spiritual growth is defined for us in the above Scripture as follows:
- The Cadet: the forgiven and secure child of God (the 5 P's)
- The Warrior: the victorious and overcoming youth living the Christian Life succesfully (the 7 A's)
- The Veteran: the intentional and intimate mature Christian (the 7 L's)
Where are you, right now? A cadet in the Christian journey—learning who you are in Christ? A warrior using God's Word to overcome the enemy and develop Christian relationships? Or are you a veteran intentionally and intimately growing in Christ, ready to make disciples of Christ? Where are you?
Hope to see you next semester as we continue together as Third Years in NHE's Find True Identity Discpleship.