1. Spiritual Soaring Becoming the Follower God Wants You to Be

2. Parable of the Ducks

3. Isaiah 40:29-31 He [God] gives power to the weak and strength to the powerless. 30 Even youths will become weak and tired, and young men will fall in exhaustion. 31 But those who trust in the Lord will find new strength. They will soar high on wings like eagles. They will run and not grow weary. They will walk and not faint.

4. SOAR Self-Feeding. – take responsibility for their own spiritual understanding, character development and growth. – do not depend on a priest or a pastor or teacher to spoon feed them as though they are spiritual infants. – take the initiative to learn the skills necessary for their own spiritual development.

5. SOAR Obedient to the Spirit. – Not legalism, which is religious enslavement to a written code of laws. – a relationship of faith in and faithful obedience to the One God who loves us and lives in us through His Spirit and guides us in all areas of our lives.

6. SOAR Alert for Opportunities. – alert to opportunities for ministry. – take the initiative to share their lives, gifts, understanding in compassionate and Christlike ways.

7. SOAR Reproducing Spiritually – reproduce spiritually by making disciples of all people groups, including their own, – passing on to new believers all that they know about following Jesus.

8. Spiritual Self- Feeding Feed Ourselves through God’s Word – The first task of every follower of Jesus is to become equipped to interpret and apply the Scriptures to your life.

9. Spiritual Self- Feeding Learn How to Pray for Ourselves- – We need to be able to be self-feeding in terms of prayer – not live off of somebody else’s prayer life. – It is through prayer that we come to know the mind of Christ – that we sense His leadership – that we commune with Him. – Too many followers of Jesus don’t really know how to pray, or what to pray for.

10. Spiritual Self- Feeding Participate in Body Life – putting into practice second part of the Great Commandment (Matthew 22:37), where Jesus said, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” – This is the theme of a whole group of Bible verses known as the “one anothers” of Scripture.

11. What to Do 1.Make a commitment to God that you want to learn 1.to read and interpret the Scriptures for yourself 2.to pray without ceasing and 3.love your neighbor as yourself. It begins with your commitment. 2.Find a more mature Christian than you and ask him/her to disciple you.

12. What to Do 3.Start attending one of FMBC’s Bible studies. 4.Come to Bible Study next Sunday morning and sign up for a new Bible Study class that will teach you to self-feed. 5.Go to www.fmbcdallas.org and get the resources there called Thirty-Six Core Competencies. Learn them.www.fmbcdallas.org