Design	Empathy	Symphony	Play/Fun	Meaning
Your Story
My Story
God’s Story

Let’s start off with some basic definition for the labels across the top:

Design: The aesthetic qualities that attract us to something. The quality of the art.

Empathy: The connection to the emotions of the audience.

Symphony: The combining of different elements in harmony.

Play/Fun: The ability to stimulate a sense of enjoyment.

Meaning: The connection to a greater significance.

And now some definitions for those down the side:

Your Story: The story of the person we are speaking to.

My Story: The story of my life and experience.

God’s story: The story of God’s interaction with the world.

And now let’s ask ourselves. If this is a matrix of our evangelistic engagement with someone, how comprehensive (i.e. how many of these bases have we got covered) in our evangelism?

Perhaps a lot of our evangelism has been stuck in just the one cell in the bottom right hand corner. Perhaps we have been regularly includ...

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We recently had our first guys retreat for the students here in Auckland. (In the past we’ve had a leader’s retreat for the guys, this year we opened it up to all). The retreat was three days, and a great opportunity to connect with those who have got involved more recently. Specifically we:

• Had four talks given. I spoke on “What it Means to be a Hero”, a study on the character of Daniel.
• Spent time getting to know others over meals (we ate plenty) and games.
• Challenged the guys to grow in their walk with the Lord, and build good community to support each other in doing so.

The retreat was a success, and looks like it’ll be something we’ll do again in the future.

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