Classes
Week One—I Shouldn't Make Mistakes
Trying to avoid failure is exhausting. Even though you hate it, failures can teach you valuable lessons. They refine and purify, giving you the valuable gift of resilience. Week one of Failure 101 will teach you:
- how to see the value in your big mistake and use them for your benefit.
- Steps to overcoming the fear of failure.
- how to move through a mistake in the most productive way possible.
Week Two—My Mistakes Prove I'm A Bad Person
How much shame do you feel whenever you think of past mistakes? Have you defined yourself based upon the failures of your past? In week two you will learn:
- the differences between shame and guilt.
- how to maintain a healthy self perspective in the midst of our mistakes.
- how God relates to you “while you were yet sinners.”
Week Three—I'm Afraid To Try New Things
Once you’ve failed, its difficult putting yourself out there again. Your world may have become very gray because you now feel like you have to take the safest routes possible. In week three you’ll learn:
- how to once again take healthy risks.
- about God’s wonderful gift called healing.
- how to live in a world of potential harm.
- and how to not expect or demand guarantees of success.
Week Four—I Need To Make Up For My Mistakes
When you’ve experienced failure, its common to seek more and more control in your life. You believe that more control will reduce the chance of making another mistake. In week four you’ll learn:
- why seeking control in your life will never work.
- why God uses grace instead of works to redeem our mistakes.
- how to trust again.
- how to humbly live a gracious life, mistakes and all.
Week Five—My Mistakes Lead To Conflict
When others make mistakes, it’s common for conflict to arise. Many people believe that conflict is wrong or sinful and should be avoided at all costs. Others believe that the presence of conflict signifies that a relationship is somehow damaged or broken. In week five you’ll learn:
- what healthy conflict looks like.
- the advantages of good conflict skills.
- how the Goldilocks Principle works.
Week Six—Forgiveness Is Hard
Forgiveness is not always an easy thing to do. Yet, we are instructed to forgive others as we’ve been forgiven. In week six you’ll learn:
- what that process of forgiveness looks like .
- how you’ve been forgiven.
- how to grant forgiveness to others.
- how to grant forgiveness to yourself.
Week Seven—How To Grieve
Some failures can’t be fixed. When that happens we start to move through the grief process. Grief is simply the process of accepting the pain of not getting something we really really really really wanted. In week seven you’ll learn:
- what healthy grief and hurting looks like.
- how to avoid the things that slow or hinder the grieving process.
- how best to help someone who is grieving.
Week Eight—Failure Stories
Hearing other people’s stories of how they’ve grown through failure can bring great encouragement. Telling your own failure story can also bring personal healing. The final week in the series is designed to be an informal time of listening or telling your personal story of failure. Its also a time to dialogue through an extended Q&A time.
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