anyONE can START, OPEN, LEAD a LIFE GROUP at HIS LIFE

a VISION 

of seeing ALL become MINISTERS, MISSIONARIES 

and SERVANT-LEADERS in the discussion of the 

WORD of GOD and its APPLICATION is our passion 

at HIS LIFE 

-- THIS IS A 

DISCIPLESHIP HABIT!

WE HAVE weekly LIFE GROUP materials GIVEN TO ALL to accomplish this.

This is in line with our SERMON of the WEEK, and series for the MONTH. 

• A young ELEMENTARY kid may LEAD using these prepared LIFE GROUP LESSONS.
• A group of HIGH SCHOOL students may begin a GROUP DISCUSSION using these.
• A team of COLLEGE and UNIVERSITY STUDENTS may push one another to become BIBLE WORLD-VIEW Believers!
• A Young Professional may open a NOONBREAK small group moment using these materials (see below) to have meaningful sharing around the WORD of God from Monday to Friday.
• This may also be done by COUPLES, MENS and WOMENS groups in their HOMES and other VENUES....

ALL THESE MATERIALS will be more appreciated as their groups JOINS too the different CHURCH SUNDAY WORSHIP CELEBRATIONS near them!

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ALPHA: Introducing People to JESUS as a MISSIONS Priority

HLM Manuals on the RUN!

WE NEED MANUALS ....

NOW an excerpt on the proposed ALPHA idea under MISSIONS.

As we are gathering information here and there to make sure that we RUN things the way it has to be (in the spirit of Standardization, Inspiration and Excellence), we are also doing modeling for the upcoming takers, leaders, hosts and helpers of "ALPHA" His Life.  We determine that every SITE, NETWORK and GROUP consider this tool of INTRODUCING Christ to the world around them.

 

CONTRIBUTION from DANIEL BAGAYO

FOR ALPHA SECTION (HLM Missions Manual Creation 2022)

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WE RUN ALPHA: 

A Missions Tool in His Life

ALPHA, at its most basic intention, is to initiate a journey of discovering Jesus. 

It leads with relevant questions that welcome those participating to interact in conversation that shares personal experiences which are always fun and engaging. 

It also opens the mind and especially the heart to consider ideas about the Christian faith and share them with others that create new relationships and strengthen old ones. 

This is the hook of ALPHA and why it is such an efficient tool for missions.

There are so many tools for evangelism and Alpha is considered one of them but is significantly more than that. Alpha employs an evangelism strategy called “relationship evangelism” but Alpha stretches the relationship experience to a 9-11 weeks journey of breaking bread together, asking life’s most important questions together, listening to one another, and serving one another, therefore, providing a stage for Christian values to be employed in realtime. 

One finds a community that acts like the church, loves like the church, and cares like the church should but doesn’t look like a typical church in its elements.

Nobody mistakes Alpha for a church at first because there is no preaching, there is no singing, and no visible prayer, but only at first. 

Don’t get it wrong though, prayer is one of the most essential weapons in running an ALPHA as it is the way we depend on the Holy Spirit to move in the lives of the participants, after all, we cannot preach nor sing! 

Only pray, listen, and serve.

This also means that Alpha is a discipleship tool. 

Disclaimer: Alpha does not make disciples, YOU make disciples of Jesus. 

Alpha naturally creates an avenue by which we are intended to apply faith, pray, and practice Christian values in a loving and energized atmosphere. 

Discipleship is applied in Alpha and this is also a teaser of the church a missionary may want to launch in the kairos time of God.

The participants will eventually ask: “What’s next after Alpha?” 

What event will follow is completely up to the one running the Alpha but for all involved, CROSSROADS is what’s next naturally as we will already be placing them in LifeGroups gradually after the Weekend Away to continue journeying with them. 

After the CrossRoads comes the CROSSOVER WEEKEND that greatly fortifies their faith and belongingness to God’s family.

In this respect, ALPHA also becomes a training tool, especially for potential leaders in the church. Since ALPHA employs some serious planning and administrating, the Pastor/Team Administrator can delegate certain tasks to potential leaders that would give them a chance to minister and love people in a way that evaluates progress and reveals various needs that they can meet as they lead people to Jesus.

With this, Running an ALPHA is undoubtedly a move for Missions.

Daniel Bagayo
for HLM Missions Manual

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*ALPHA introducing people to JESUS -- a WIN DEPARTMETN TOO and must be supported by MISSIONS!

TIME TO GET READY MY TEAM DAILY READINGS 5

DAY 5

GO BEYOND THIS:  MEDIOCRITY

Go beyond mediocrity – Pursue excellence, not excuses.

It’s not enough to impress a society with  remarkably low expectations.  
It’s not enough to be a stand out in the sea of mediocrity.  
To go beyond the limits is to focus not on the things that are impressive to 
others but on things that actually will challenge you and cause you to grow.

As "rebel"utionaries, it can be challenging when we set our sights on 
EXCELLENCE, particularly when we’re hearing that we’re already there.

 
How can we expect ourselves to GO BEYOND when we think we’re already 
at the height of our goal?

 
We must learn how to measure things using God’s gauge, not our very 
short-length yardsticks, not even other people’s stumpy scale. 

God had set his standards this high so we won’t make the mistake of 
AIMING LOW.

 
Doing hard things means fighting for greater levels of excellence because 
there is always something harder to do.

  
It is never a matter of arriving, it’s a constant battle for growth.

AN ELEPHANT LESSON
To keep the elephants from wandering off, the elephant owners in Asia take a small rope, ties it to a wooden post in the ground and attaches it to the elephant’s right hind leg.  Of course to the elephant, the rope is nothing more than a string.  One jerk and the rope would snap.  Yet the elephant stays put.  How does this work?  When the elephant is still young, the owner takes him from his mother and shackles him to a large tree – with a heavy chain around his right hind leg.  For days and weeks, the young elephant will strain and pull, trying to break free, but all he succeeds in doing is causing the shackles to cut deep into his leg.  Eventually he gives up and accepts the idea that he can’t go anywhere when there is something around his right hind leg.  Soon the owner can replace the tree with a post and the chain with a piece of twine.  There’s nothing but a piece of twine around his ankle, but there are heavy shackles around his mind.
Are you like that elephant?  

Is the world trying to trap you by its pathetic piece of twine around your ankle?  

Do you want  to break that twine and go beyond the limits it has created in your 
mind?

You can, today, as you renew your mind.  
It’s all in your mind.  

Remember our verse:
“Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed in the renewing of your mind.  Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is – his good, pleasing and perfect will.”   Romans 12:2

You can break free from all the low expectations and limitations placed on you by 
choosing to believe that God has greater, higher, bigger plans for your life!  
Soar higher towards your true potential in ther Lord.  
With Him you can do hard things…go beyond the limits!


WRITE 3 THINGS YOU DESIRE TO DO THAT IS A VERY HARD THING:

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END OF THESE 5 DAY READINGS

YOU MAY GO BACK to DAY ONE here 

TIME TO GET READY MY TEAM DAILY READINGS 4

DAY 4
GO BEYOND THE LIMITS
HERE'S MORE

What to do to GO Beyond?

Go beyond the don’ts – Be known for the things you do more than for what you don’t.

Christian life is never just about avoiding “bad stuff” (taking drugs, drinking, 
doing sex, partying), but doing GOOD, HARD STUFF for God. 

We must go beyond SIMPLY AVOIDING THE DON’TS.

It’s not enough to be known for the negative things we don’t do, but we 
should also be known for the positive and difficult things we do.

To go beyond the limit, we must not only avoid sin, but we must pursue 
righteousness in a way that others will want to imitate.

To go beyond the limit, we must be like a confident warrior, yes with 
weapons of defense, but is directed towards offensive steps. 

No battle is won by just a mere stand of DEFENSE … but with actions of OFFENSE. 

WRITE A PRAYER ON WHAT YOU WANT TO START AND DO FOR GOD'S GLORY

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PLEASE PROCEED to DAY FIVE here 

TIME TO GET READY MY TEAM DAILY READINGS 3

DAY # 3

COMPLACENCY

For many youth, the low expectations have become comfort zones.  
They do what comes easily, get away with less than their best and go with the 
crowd.  
They excuse their choices because that’s just what young people are supposed or 
expected to do. 
Sometimes the expectations placed on you may not be low because you are seen 
to be “above average” or an exception compared to the irresponsibility, 
immaturity and incompetence expected from teenagers.  

You are seen to be an exception!
But this can also a trap when you don’t live up to your actual potential in God.
  
Because of these (low expectations and exception trap), young people  easily 
become complacent. 

 
STORY OF NICK (show video of NICK)

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Nick could have chosen to be complacent but he did not.
Complacency is defined as a smug feeling of satisfaction of who you are and what 
you’ve done.
The cost of complacency is tragic. 

“The complacency of fools destroys them.”

Proverbs 1:32

Complacency causes you to slide into habits of mediocrity and excuse making.  

Life gets boring and you’re not sure why.  
You just suspect that there’s a lot more you could do or be.  
Over time refusing to reach higher, try harder, and risk more robs us of the 
glorious purpose and wonderful future God has created us for
We waste some (even the rest of it)  of the best years of our lives and never reach 
our full God-given potential.

  
We never attempt things that would stretch, grow and strengthen us .  
We end up weak and unprepared for the amazing future that could have been.
We like the freedom that low expectations give us, but in reality we are really 
being robbed (of God’s best for us).  

Do not waste your teen years.  

Fight complacence.  It’s high time you go beyond the limits.

WHAT ARE THE LIMITS?

GO BEYOND THE LIMITS ....
1. Go beyond the average – Do what’s hard for you.

A revolutionary takes time to identify the areas where he or she could 
accomplish more by STEPPING ACROSS the line of what comes easily and COMING OUT from behind past accomplishments, complacency and low expectations.

  
To go beyond the limits we must go beyond the doing the regulars, things that any ordinary man can do, things that are but normal and natural. 

To go beyond the limit, we must set our feet upon the line of God’s standards, not ours or other people’s low standards.

To go beyond the limit, we must FOCUS not on what you cannot, not even on what you can, but on WHAT MORE YOU CAN DO for God.

WRITE A GO BEYOND PRAYER FOR YOURSELF 

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PLEASE PROCEED to DAY FOUR here