Personal Trainer
As a Christ following Personal Trainer Jim Denison is convinced that, having learned from Jesus, he can, in turn, guide others in Christ's way of living.
From the resources of a lifetime with Jesus The Life Master Jim provides models, training, and accountability in all dimensions of life.
In an 8 Phase "personal training" regimen Jim concentrates on ...
Vision
Intention/Goal Setting
Methods
Building a Vital Relationship With God
Learning to Follow Christ
Discovering His Spirit's Empowerment
Learning to Live With Integrity
Learning to Love
"More and better life than you've ever dreamed of ..."
THE PLAN
VIM
… strength, force, vigor, power, energy
VITALITY
… capacity to live and develop … LIFE
… “more and better life than you ever dreamed of” “… life beyond … superior life … excessive, lavish life, life beyond measure …”
DYNAMIC
… marked by usually continuous and productive activity or change … energetic … forceful …
A sense of great purpose and an
energetic well-directed,
unwavering, all-encompassing,
tireless commitment to that
purpose.
VIM
- Vision … Intention … Means
Vision – the images and ideas we have of what such a life - the LIFE Jesus lived and offers - will look like “on” us.
Intention – a decision to DO THIS! … resolve …
Means – the “regimen” … the steps by which you become such a person ... the way we live like Jesus lived ... the "how to" live this "more and better LIFE than you've ever dreamed of," ... FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE!
VISION
Your personal vision of what you will become as this “LIFE” becomes yours is essential to this training.
Books, audio books, videos and other resources helpful to trainees are provided as they craft their “vision.”
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The Discipline – Specific “Disciplines” are taught and monitored that will insure the Formation ofthe “VISION” INTENTION
“I here resolve
to ‘boldly go where
few dare to go!’ ”
The Discipline - Create a Personal Pact … a contract with yourself that binds you to DO THIS!Your Personal Mission Statement. e.g. – “Forgetting the past, looking to this inspiring vision and what it promises, I will presstoward the goal, the great purpose our Lord Jesus has for me …” Paul Apostle of JesusMEANS
The “How to” of this plan.
- Dallas Willard – “… where there is a will there is a way … if I intend to follow Jesus Christ … to obey Him … I must intend to become the kind of person who would obey. That is, I must find the means of changing my inner being until it is substantially like His, pervasively characterized by His thoughts, feelings, habits, and relationship to the Father.”
THE MEANS
A 6 PHASE PERSONAL TRAINING REGIMEN FOR FOLLOWERS OF JESUS
PHASE 1. Self Assessment – "Review your plans for living." Honestly examine how they've worked for you. Compare your life to Jesus' LIFE. Invite His Spirit's scrutiny over your heart. Recognize and confess your "sin" - "shortcomings."
Disciplines … Specific "disciplines," that enable this practice, are taught and monitored and willbecome a part of the ongoing - "forever" - life of the Christ-follower.PHASE 2. God’s Place in Your Life – Learn to establish for all time – and beyond time – your personal belief in the power of God – Our Father, our Lord Jesus, the Spirit of God – to re-order your life today and everyday, forever ...
Disciplines … Specific "disciplines," that enable this practice, are taught and monitored and willbecome a part of the ongoing - "forever" - life of the Christ-follower.PHASE 3. Surrender of Your Life to God – Learn to personally, daily, “turn your will and life” over to God’s care and rule as you grow in your understanding of Him and His purpose and provision for you.
Disciplines … Specific "disciplines," that enable this practice, are taught and monitored and willbecome a part of the ongoing - "forever" - life of the Christ-follower.PHASE 4. Repentance and Renovation – Training in ongoing, thorough, personal, sin inventory, cnfession, surrender to God's full removal of all sin's influence, all "shortcomings," and "defects of character."
Disciplines ... Specific "disciplines," that enable this practice, are taught and monitored and willbecome a part of the ongoing - "forever" - life of the Christ-follower.PHASE 5. The Greatest of all Quests – Training to, through prayer, study, meditation, solitude and silence, and other Spiritual Disciplines, “improve your conscious contact with God,” – seeking to know Him, more and more intimately, to understand His will for you, and to learn how to live out that purpose – Kingdom life – “not by (your) strength or power but by His Spirit ..."
Disciplines … Specific "disciplines," that enable this practice, are taught and monitored and willbecome a part of the ongoing - "forever" - life of the Christ-follower. PHASE 6. Going Beyond Yourself – Personal commitment to lifelong, Advanced Training as a Personal Trainer in this “way of LIFE!”
Disciplines … Specific "disciplines," that enable this practice, are taught and monitored and willbecome a part of the ongoing - "forever" - life of the Christ-follower.
