Through teaching, table discussion, and a hands-on team challenge, we looked at the importance of understanding how God has wired us — not so we can simply know ourselves better, but so we can serve more faithfully, work together more effectively, and take our next step with clarity.

This session also helped participants continue filling out their Personal Mission Map, identifying the ways God may be preparing them to contribute to the rebuilding work ahead.

Key themes:
Spiritual gifts, teamwork, calling, thinking styles, serving the body, and discovering your next step.

The episode also revisits the tennis ball challenge, where teams experienced the value and frustration of working with different thinking styles: grinders, minders, keepers, finders, and conceivers. Through creative problem-solving, loopholes, teamwork, and the temptation to “just do it alone,” the challenge became a picture of why shared ministry is harder but healthier.

The episode closes by helping participants prepare for the final session by filling out their Personal Mission Map with as much information as possible, including their mission statement, spiritual gifts, natural gifts, temperament, thinking spectrum, Enneagram, strengths, skills, abilities, passions, burdens, and next faithful step.

What if spiritual growth isn’t about getting more answers—but learning how to think with God? In Night One, we step into Paul’s challenge to Timothy in Second Epistle to Timothy 2:7 and discover that real insight doesn’t come from rushing—it comes from reflection. Through the images of a soldier, an athlete, and a farmer, we explore how God forms us not just by what we hear, but by what we’re willing to sit with. This night sets the foundation for becoming people who don’t just receive truth—but are shaped by it.