Using your completed Personal Grid as a guide, choose a Menu Option from the list below, in an area that you want to take a "best next step" of growth.
Menu Options are categorized by one of three icons, and help you grow in knowledge & understanding (brain), spiritual & character formation (heart), and hands-on application & experience (hand).
1. Effective Personal Witness
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Complete a 30-day journal of where you see God working in your life and in your world. Capture any God-moments in your life, scripture that stands out to you or appears repeatedly in your life during this time, and places or people in which you see Jesus showing up in your everyday life. |
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Write out your story-your personal testimony. Record it and watch it back with your Guide. Download a template HERE. |
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Watch or read other people's stories of faith, e.g. these from I Am Second |
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Look for an opportunity to share your story in public, whether in person or on social media. Then do it. |
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Practice telling your story to three people from your church, and listen to theirs - note where God is working in their lives as well. |
2. Sacrificial Compassionate Mission
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What service or mission opportunities are available to you in your community, division or territory? Sign up and get involved! |
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Pick a social justice issue and do some research: watch a documentary or read a book about it. Journal what you learned, and what your response will be. |
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Commit to praying for God to open your eyes and move your heart with compassion. Then watch and listen to how he answers your prayer. |
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Go for a prayer walk in your city or neighbourhood. Look for and pray needs as you walk. |
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Download the Infinitum app. Create a Hub, and begin practicing the rhythms of surrender, generosity, and mission together. Note how God makes you more sensitive to those around you over time. |
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Do a Bible or book study on issues of justice. A possible book to start with is When Justice is the Measure by Dr. James Read & Comm. Christine MacMillan. |
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Go to the International Social Justice Commission website. Choose and download one of their social issues guides, working through it this month. |
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Also on the ISJC website - download the UN Sustainable Development Goals handbook and choose a goal to begin working towards. |
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Lead a small group discussion on one of the issues your researched. Decide how you, as a group, will respond. |
3. Active Engagement in the World
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Commit to widening your friendships and circle of influence by one person this month. |
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Get involved in a group or team at your school or in your community, with the intent of having your presence and life point to Jesus, showing Christ's love by your example. |
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Interview 3 different adults in your church that you look to as examples of faith. Ask how they are actively living out their faith in their world. |
4. Healthy Spiritual Habits
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Learn about different spiritual habits (disciplines) and begin to put one or two into practice. The Spiritual Life Development Spiritual Discipline Guides, or the book Army on Its Knees by Janet Munn & Stephen Court may be helpful. |
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If you're not already using the XP3 Everyday Faith Skills Experience Kit, start this month, in addition to your base level discipleship group. |
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Commit to intentional prayer plan. Use an app like Echo Prayer or The Inner Room to help get you started. |
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Commit to a Bible reading plan or study. Download The Bible Project App or take one of their mini courses at BibleProject.com/Classroom/ |
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Ask 3 seniors in your congregation about their daily spiritual habits. Look at their Bibles and ask them about how they read it. |
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Intentionally chart the habits of your day. What new spiritual rhythms can you add/align with the already existing normal rhythms of your day? (Listen to a podcast or download and begin using the Lectio365 app in the mornings and at night.) |
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Try leading a 6-week study with your peers. Find a leader to help give you guidance and support. |
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Write and submit a devotional for Orange XP3 curriculum. |
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Examine your social media feed and consumption - what does it say about your healthy spiritual habits? What adjustments can you make? Do it. |
5. Healthy Spiritual Community
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Consider engaging in three-dimensional mentoring, finding three individuals who are older, younger and a peer. Set up a regular time to connect with each of them intentionally. Consider using Connecting: The Mentoring Relationships You Need to Succeed in Life by Paul Stanley as a resource to get your started. |
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Create an Infinitum Hub with two or three others who want to become more intentional in their faith. Download the Infinitum app for guidance and resources. |
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Look for one new way to contribute to the life of your church this month, engaging beyond being a spectator or attendee. Then do it. |
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Identify 1-2 Christlike people in your friendship circles or church and intentionally invite them/give them permission to speak into your life. |
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Examine your social media feed - what does it say about your healthy spiritual community? Are there adjustments that need to be made? Do it. |
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Read 12 Ordinary Men by David Vandebeulque with a small group, engaging the discussion guide. |
6. Salvation & Sanctification
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Write or record your salvation experience and how you're being made more and more like Jesus. Then share it with someone. |
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Read The Chase: Pursuing Holiness in Your Everyday Life by Jerry Bridges. Discuss what you're learning with someone else. |
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Create a tool that explains the Salvation Story for children or share the gospel story with a room of children. |
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Look for the fruit of the spirit in your life and in the lives of others. Take note and chart or journal areas you need improvement. Ask God to help you be more intentional in those specific areas. |
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Examine your social media feed. How does it align with Jesus' character and who you say you are in Christ? Make any adjustments needed. |
7. Equipped for Ministry
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Take a Spiritual Gifts Assessment. What are indicated as your spiritual gifts? Talk to your corps officer, youth leader or mentor, and explore how you can develop your gifts. How can you use them to contribute to the life and mission of your church? |
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Explore your unique God-given SHAPE (Spiritual gifts, Heart, Abilities, Personality, Experiences). How can you develop particular aspects of who you are? Take the challenge and work on your SHAPE! Use Congratulations... You're Gifted! Discovering Your God-Given Shape to Make a Difference in the World by Doug Fields to get you started. |
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Attend a conference or training seminar, in person or online. Share what you learned, or skills you developed with a leader in your church. |
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Shadow a leader in your church and document what you learn about how they lead. |
8. Entrusted with Ministry
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Talk to your corps officer or youth leader to explore what areas of ministry you can become involved in. |
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Take on an apprenticeship in an area of ministry at your church or elsewhere, learning from a more experienced leader who will work with you and allow you to gain your own experience through the relationship. |
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Does your school or campus have a Christian fellowship? Explore ways you can become involved - not just as an attendee, but to help contribute to its life and success through ministry. |
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Organize a service project or fundraiser to help support those who are less fortunate in your neighbourhood or world. |
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Work with your corps officer or youth leader to research, write and share a message (sermon) in church about the importance of becoming engaged in ministry to a person's spiritual development. Not ready for a sermon? Lead a devotional for a ministry group at your church (youth group, band, adult fellowship, etc.) |
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Consider the hours in your day and week. How do you spend them? How many are simply spent "passing time"? How could you leverage some of those hours to contribute to the life of your church or community in some form of ministry? Talk to a leader or mentor about the possibilities and then make a plan, and begin working it out. |
9. Stewardship
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Ask your church for offering envelopes and make a commitment to regularly give your tithes and offerings each week. |
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Chart how you regularly spend your day. Identify times you could better use for God's glory. Talk to someone to identify ways to better steward that time. |
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Get a part-time job, or consider the one you already have, and make the commitment from the start to take the first 10% of your pay cheque and set it aside to give back to God through your tithes and offerings. |
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Monitor your daily/weekly screen time updates. Take a look at how much time you're spending and where that time is spent. Are there ways you can spend some of that time that can help strengthen your spiritual life? |
10. Discernment & Decision-making
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Use the 3(D) Guide to Making Wise Media Choices by Walt Mueller, and take the steps suggested to examine your media habits through the lens of faith. |
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Take note of the messages you receive this month through media, school, friend groups, news, legislation, etc. How do these stack up against a biblical worldview? Find someone to discuss this with. |
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Chart the decisions you make this month. What factors did you take into consideration when making them? Did you just go with your gut, line it up against scripture, commit to praying about it, seek God's will, gain broader perspective from your healthy spiritual community? Note patterns in your decision-making process, and make adjustments as needed. |
11. Relation to Authority
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Invite a trusted leader to observe you in an area of authority you hold (Sunday school teacher, team captain, shift manager, etc.) and debrief how you use the authority that has been given to you. |
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Where do you find yourself coming in conflict with authority? Why do you think this is? How can you respond in a more Christlike way? |
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Find a Christian who holds a senior position in a secular environment and ask them how they hold their authority in a Christlike way? What principles can you apply from their experience? |
12. Response to God's Call
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Plan to attend the Design for Life or Officer Information Weekend. |
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Make your response to God's calling in your life an intentional prayer focus. Ask a group of people to pray with you. |
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Use the book The Call by Os Guinness for your daily devotions this month. Journal your response to what you take in. |
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Consider your God-given SHAPE (Spiritual gifts, Heart, Abilities, Personality, Experiences) and explore ways you can best discern how you can uniquely serve God based on your SHAPE. Use Congratulations... You're Gifted! Discovering Your God-Given Shape to Make a Difference in the World by Doug Fields to get you started. |
13. Beliefs/Values/Behaviours
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Explore the doctrines of The Salvation Army. Read and discuss them with your corps officer or youth leader. Write them out and what they mean to you. |
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Read the book insane: the stories of crazy salvos who changed the world by Nelson Munn & David Collinson. What did you learn from our Salvationist history? How might you impact your world today, living out the purposes of the Army? |
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Use The Salvation Army's Day by Day resource as a devotional throughout the month. Put its principles into action. |
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Choose to read or go through a soldiership prep course or book, such as Called to Be a Soldier, Battle Ready, Mobilized for Mission or Call to Arms. Work through it with a leader in your church, whether or not you currently are, or intend to become a soldier. |
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Engage in mission to the less fortunate in your community beyond your corps walls. |
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Read a biography of Salvationist leader or account from Army history to gain a better understanding of our heritage and mission. |
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Use our new territorial vision statement to help you dream up some ideas of how you could help integrate church families with your community and family services. Build bridges both ways. With the guidance of a corps or family services leader, begin to put some plans on one of your ideas. |