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Here’s how the three refined purposes intersect with the 8 Moves framework:
1. Align with God’s Design
• Light: Recognize the source of illumination, reality and truth.
• Water: Flow in rhythm with renewal and cleansing, reflecting God’s life-giving design.
• Land: Establish firm foundations rooted in God’s order and provision.
• Time: Embrace the seasons and timing God has ordained.
2. Foster Transformation
• Life: Experience personal renewal and the fullness of life as God intended.
• Work: Grow through meaningful effort, service, and the stewardship of gifts.
• Rest: Cultivate a rhythm of stillness and dependence on God’s sufficiency.
• Rebirth: Embrace transformation through surrender, leading to new beginnings.
3. Empower for Impact
• Mind – Light & Water: Shine as a beacon and pour out love, inspiring others through God’s presence.
• Strength – Land & Time: Build enduring legacies and steward the moments given to impact others.
• Heart – Life & Work: Serve communities with vitality and purpose, living as an example of Christ.
• Soul – Rest & Rebirth: Lead others to find renewal and transformation through God’s promises.
1. Align with God’s Design
My first reactions… First off: Love the rhythm and rhyme of Align with God’s Design. Poetic beautiful and informative.
• Light: Recognize the source of illumination, reality and truth.
This suggests the source of illumination is “reality and truth”? Correct?… Is God interchangeable with Light?… Is ‘Darkness’ fiction?… Do we perceive Light as the compliment or the enemy of Darkness?
• Water: Flow in rhythm with renewal and cleansing, reflecting God’s life-giving design.
What is “flow in rhythm”? … The goals of Renewal and Cleansing suggest unbridled waters attached to chaotic suffering: loss and destruction (deconstruction! 😉)? … Don’t Chaotic waters events usually kill and destroy as preamble to life-giving? …Water flow as compared to Psalm 23’s “still water”? … Ruach often accompanies water flow, Genesis 1 creation, or like Red Sea parting, and with Noah and Jonah, events. And in the NT with Jesus calming the storm or walking on water, and Paul’s shipwreck.
• Land: Establish firm foundations rooted in God’s order and provision.
Land metaphors are not as temperamental and chaotic as water metaphors… Yet Land always seems transitive in Bible, Land is provided then lost through an exile of some sort. Eden, the Land of Promise, the Kingdom of Heaven, are always the promised, always almost here. We await the Kingdom of God but doesn’t The Kingdom of Heaven mean Kingdom of the Sky and not the Land?
Ran out of time to react to Time. Glen, you have a solid foundation here, well thought through, and rich with applicable metaphoric life lesson sin spiritual growth. If you had not noticed, most all my feedback suggests exploring the themes of Light, Water, and Land in association with the antithesis of each. An example is a hero, where the story richly develops the hero’s dark struggles as well as heroic deeds of Light.