Transcript Being Present

Review
Session 1 – Beauty and the Message
Session 2 – Media: The Big Picture
Session 3 – Simplicity
Simplicity
What is simplicity?
Why choose for simplicity?
 Because we’ve been invited.
 Because of our nature.
 For the sake of freedom.
Simplicity in daily life.
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Pornography
Copyright Laws
Time Vortex
Accountability
Media/entertainment
purge
Consider the media you own and have
available for your use:
– Do you need all this?
– Can you throw or give away some of it?
– Do the movies, CDs, etc. I own help me
as a disciple? If not should I keep them?
– Do I currently have any illegal materials
that I should delete for good?
Being Present
1. The Myth of Multi-tasking
2. Levels of Presence
3. Love
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• The Myth of Multi-tasking
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• The Myth of Multi-tasking
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• Effective Multi-tasking?
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• Levels
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The greatest
commandment
• Jesus answered, "The most important is,
'Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the
Lord is one. And you shall love the Lord
your God with all your heart and with all
your soul and with all your mind and with
all your strength.' The second is this: 'You
shall love your neighbor as yourself.'
There is no other commandment greater
than these." (Mark 12:29-31)
Communications Audit
List the different means of communication
that you use the most.
Rank them in your effectiveness to love
others.
Does this affect the communication means
that I use?
Discussion questions:
Describe a good experience of multitasking Describe an epic failure due to multi-tasking.
What are some courtesy guidelines we can
all agree upon for our communication?
What does the greatest commandment have to
say about how I communicate with others?