Chazown: Define Your Vision. Pursue Your Passion. Live Your Life on Purpose. - Softcover

Groeschel, Craig

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1601423136 ISBN 13: 9781601423139

Publisher: Multnomah, 2010

Synopsis

Chazown (pronounced khaw-ZONE) from the Hebrew, meaning a dream, revelation, or vision.
 
You were born with your own Chazown. Do you know what it is?
 
You’re invited on a most unusual odyssey—to find, name, and live out your personal Chazown. It’s a journey you’ll never forget because it’s impossible to return unchanged.
 
Practical, fresh, and biblically sound, Chazown is a one-of-a-kind life planning experience. Perhaps for the first time, you’ll clearly understand what you’ve always suspected:
 
I have been created and put on earth for a unique and important purpose.
And God intends for me to know it and live it with passion and fulfillment for His glory.
 
Craig Groeschel will help you get under the surface of your life to discover your life purpose in three often overlooked areas: your core values, your spiritual gifts, and your past experiences. He’ll help you turn it into a highly motivating credo—complete with short-term goals, action steps, and a supportive network to make your big dream a reality.
 
And then Craig will show you how to apply your own chazown to five critical areas of your life: your relationship with God, your relationships with people, your finances, your health and fitness, and your work.
 
Are you living someone else’s dream for your life, or no dream at all? Get ready for Chazown.
 
For resources, visit The Chazown Experience at www.chazown.com

About this title

About the Author:

Craig Groeschel is the founding and senior pastor of LifeChurch.tv, recently ranked the nation’s second largest church. LifeChurch.tv currently hosts more than eighty weekend worship experiences at fourteen campuses. Craig and his wife, Amy, share a passion to lead people to become fully devoted followers of Jesus Christ. They live with their six children near Edmond, Oklahoma. 

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Part 1

Seeing Clear to the End

Why you need a new kind of vision

Your Final Chapter
Most people take a long time to die.
(This is no way to start a book, you say.)
   But think about it. There are those few who go suddenly. Accidents. Heart attacks. Gang shootings. A soapy slip off the edge of the tub. But for you, chances are that at the end of your life, you will die in bed. Waiting.
   And while you wait, you will very likely have days, weeks, even years to think, to look back on your life.
   Imagine yourself there, lying in bed and reflecting. Reading back through the chapters of your life story.
   What did my life add up to?
   Did I really matter?
   What did I live for?
   Who will remember me?
   What will they say about me when I’m gone?
   Why was it important that I existed?
   So many questions. So much time. Will you lie there with no regrets? Some regrets? Nothing but regrets?
   Imagine.
   Or not. I mean, you’ll probably have time to think about it when you get to that bed. So you could just wait. (Millions do.) See what comes. Wait until the final pages of your life story to see how it reads to you then.
   But that’s no way to end the story of your life.
   Here’s one more thing to think about: the decisions you are making today are actually making the bed you will lie in while you wait to die.
   Which is why I wrote this book. To help you see your life differently, to see it the way your Creator saw it before you were born. And to live it with purpose and passion.
   Starting now.

About this edition

• Publisher: Multnomah
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1601423136
• ISBN 13: 9781601423139
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256