Crash the Chatterbox: Hearing God's Voice Above All Others. (Participants' guide) - Softcover

Furtick, Steven

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1601426577 ISBN 13: 9781601426574

Publisher: Multnomah, 2014

Synopsis

Focus on the promises of God to overcome the voices of insecurity, fear, condemnation, and discouragement....
 
This guide will help you and your small group replace negative internal chatter with the promises of God. Join Pastor Steven Furtick as he walks you and your group through the issues of insecurity, fear, condemnation, and discouragement, and learn as he offers strategies for combating them. 
 
Designed for both individuals and groups for use with the companion DVD, which consists of six video sessions.
 
Based on the life-changing book, Crash the Chatterbox, this participant’s guide includes a number of special features in each session:
· Video response  prompts
· Group discussion questions
· Session closing prayers
· After-session activities
 
This guide also includes the following bonus sections to help group members carry the message of each session into their daily lives:
· My Time with God
· My Action Steps
 
A leader’s help guide makes it easy for any group member to conduct the group study of Crash the Chatterbox.
 
The questions and reflections in this guide will help you see for yourself why listening to God’s voice above all others is the most important habit you can ever develop.

About this title

About the Author:

Steven Furtick is the New York Times best-selling author of Greater and Sun Stand Still. He is also the founder and lead pastor of Elevation Church, a multi-site church based in Charlotte, North Carolina. He holds a master of divinity degree from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He and his wife, Holly, live in the Charlotte area with their three children, Elijah, Graham, and Abbey.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.:

 
Session 1
Introduction
The Chatterbox
This session’s key idea: We can never tune out all the chatter—
the lies in our minds—but we can learn to tune in to God’s
voice.
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I read online that the average person has more than sixty thousand
thoughts per day and over 80 percent of these thoughts are
negative. Is that accurate? I don’t know. But let’s think together
about the possibility that 80 percent of our thoughts are not
only devoid of any power to help us but are also actively working
against us. When we allow our thoughts to go unchecked,
a steady drip of lies cements the wrong patterns within our
minds, building a Berlin Wall of bad beliefs.
 
I wonder how much of its forty-eight-thousand-word quota
your chatterbox has already filled today.
 
Did you hear it in the closet while you were getting dressed,
telling you that it doesn’t matter what you put on, that nothing
will look good on you because you’re too flabby, too bony, too
pale, too old, or, in a single word, defective?
 
Did you hear it in the office where you work or in the home
where you raise your children, telling you there’s no point in
trying so hard because no one notices anyway?
 
Do you hear it loudest at the end of the day, when mistakes
and regrets and missteps can bounce around the room unobstructed
by progress or perspective?
 
You sounded really stupid when...
How will you ever recover from...
Why would anybody want to be around a person like you,
who...
God must be awfully disappointed in the way you...
 
We all have a chatterbox. How we respond to it will make
the difference between a life spent floundering around in lies
and regrets or a life that’s making steady progress toward fulfilling
God’s desires for us.

About this edition

• Publisher: Multnomah
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1601426577
• ISBN 13: 9781601426574
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128