1. Question 1
Who knows someone else that is good at something?

2. Question 2 How did they get good at it? Practice Discipline
Good teaching
Lots of Time

3. Training… What’s the big deal?
By Stephen Daniel

4. Training…What’s the big deal?
Time – Training’s playing field
Why should I care?
Three types of training
Training Exercise
Training Challenge

5. Training…What’s the big deal?
Time – Training’s playing field
Why should I care?
Three types of training
Training Exercise
Training Challenge

6. Time – Training’s Playing field
How you spend your time is important
How Important?
Let’s see some quotes.

7. Time Quotes Lost time is never found again. ― Benjamin Franklin
Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life. ― Alan Lakein
Look carefully then how you walk…making the best use of the time Ephesians 5:15

8. Time Quotes
If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of. ― Bruce Lee

9. Time Quotes
“Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.”  ― Anthony G. Oettinger

10. Time Statistics In 2012, the average American spent…
2.8 hours per day watching TV
That’s 100o hours in a year
That’s nearly half a year of 40-hour work weeks
Making minimum wage that person would have made enough to buy a nice used car.
IT GETS WORSE…

11. Time Statistics cont. LA Times Study –
8-18 year olds spent an average of 7.5 hours a day on TV, Video Games and computer combined.
That’s a full-time job plus 12.5 hours of overtime.
Earning minimum wage plus overtime that person could have earned $22,148 that year.
So, according to these studies, what are Americans getting good at?

12. Time Statistics cont.
Pwning N0obs in Halo
Being movie critics
Memorizing sports trivia
Repeating funny lines from TV shows
What else?
They are training to be good at these things, simply by spending time on them.

13. Rhetorical Question 3 What are you getting good at?
Guaranteed, it is whatever you are spending a lot of time on.

14. Training…What’s the big deal?
Time – Training’s playing field
Why should I care?
Three types of training
Training Exercise
Training Challenge

15. Why should I care? What if I like Can’t I use MY Time like I WANT?
Being a self-proclaimed college football analyst,
Amassing a mental database of Homestar Runner quotes
Pwning noobs online
Can’t I use MY Time like I WANT?
Underwater
Basket-weaving

16. Why should I care? Though none of these things are inherently bad
God cares about how we use our time…
Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time, because the days are evil. Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
Ephesians 5:15-17

17. God Cares About My Time
Our time is not our own because WE are not our own.
God created us:
God created people in his own image… Gen. 1:27
You…knit me together in my mother's womb. Ps. 139:13
God also purchased us:
You do not belong to yourself, for God bought you with a high price. 1 Cor. 6:19-20
God has purchased our freedom with his blood…Col. 1: 14

18. God Cares About My Time
We are God’s. Therefore “my time” is actually HIS time.
He has given us things to do:
You will know what God wants you to do, and you will know how good and pleasing and perfect his will really is. Rom. 12:2
After David had served his generation according to the will of God, he died and was buried… Acts 13:36

19. God Cares About My Time
We will be held accountable for what we do with our time.
Each of us will have to give a personal account to God. Romans 14:2
It is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment.
Hebrews 9:27

20. God Cares About My Time
How does using our time according to God’s will relate to training?
God wants us to DO some things that we aren’t quite ready to do.
David had served his generation according to the will of God, he died and was buried Acts 13:36
He also wants us to BE some things that we are not currently.
You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly father is perfect. Matt 5:48
How do you get from where you are now, to where God wants you to be?

21. Training

22. Training…What’s the big deal?
Time – Training’s playing field
Why should I care?
Three types of training
Training Exercise
Training Challenge

23. Three types of training
Knowledge:
Defined: The fact or condition of being aware of something
Choose my instruction rather than silver, and knowledge over pure gold. Pr. 8:10

24. Three types of training
Skills:
Defined: The ability to use one's knowledge to effectively accomplish a task
Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will stand before kings; He will not stand before obscure men. Pr. 22:29
Insert Napoleon Dynamite Quote Here…

25. Three types of training
Character:
Defined: The complex of mental and ethical traits marking a person
They should be given other responsibilities in the church as a test of their character and ability. 1 Tim 3:10

26. Three types of training
In order for us to accomplish God’s will for our lives, we need to develop in all three types of training.

27. Training…What’s the big deal?
Time – Training’s playing field
Why should I care?
Three types of training
Training Exercise
Training Challenge

28. Training Exercise
As of today, what is one thing you think God wants you to do with your life?
My Answer:
So far, I think the Lord is leading me to go into full-time ministry within the next several years.
I also need to build a family.

29. Training Exercise
What might you need to learn to accomplish that? (Keep in mind Knowledge, Skills & Character)
My Answer:
Going into Ministry –
How to deal with and lead people older than me, much older.
Evangelism outside of a school environment
How to walk with God through hard things
Building a family –
Raise children
Manage Personal/family finances

30. Training Exercise How might you be able to learn those things?
My Answer:
Leading people older than me
Practice in Growth Groups, Various other projects around hope
Raise children
Reading books (recommended books) about parenting
In the work place, with coaching from my bosses
Asking for help from people ahead of me in life
Evangelism outside of a school environment
Wisdom Seminars on Family
Using growth groups to meet people
Manage Personal/family finances
Involving others in my life and family
Books and seminars on the topic
How to walk with God through hard things
Asking for help from people ahead of me
Consistent Quiet Times
Keeping a good group of people around me to help keep me out of the ditches

31. Training Exercise
What things might get in the way of you learning those things? (aka. Distractions)
My Answer:
Currently:
Desire to Sleep
Love for going out to eat
Anything but what I should be doing
During HS and College:
Video games
Excessive time at the gym
Hanging out with friend (all hours of the night)
Dreaming of doing rather than training… Pr. 19:2

32. Training Challenge Develop a mindset of “My time is not my own”
“Is this how God wants me to use His time?”
Commit yourself to training now
So that you will be effective at handling life later

33. Training…What’s the big deal?
The end