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The Discovery Seminar The Discovery Seminar is a breakthrough for negotiating new and different strategies for loving and living, a means to gain experience and insight into the fundamental assumptions that govern your life, and an opportunity to order the chaos in your life and to release the unique beauty of God's gift in you. Discovery is a response to the cry for a radical change.
Is Today The Information Age or The Isolation Age? We live in a time of unprecedented expansion of knowledge. The depth and breadth, as well as the rapid access and retrieval of human knowledge would stun our forebears. We are all permanently embedded in this flow of information, yet we are still left with Jesus' question, "For what is a man advantaged if he gain the whole world and lose himself?" The Information Age is at the same time The Isolation Age. We are more isolated and out-of-sync than ever before. We have, in many ways, lost ourselves and each other. Many people sense a powerlessness over their lives, their relationships, themselves. Many complain of not being worthy and lacking significance. Many feel disconnected from themselves and others--even those closest to them. Often, as a result of our disconnection, isolation, and powerlessness, we turn to various diversions to anesthetize the discomforts of life. The ways we "numb out" are legion: materialism, workaholism, addictions, TV, video games; the list is as endless as people are unique. Whether there is a direct connection between the expansion of knowledge and the increasing human disconnection is a topic for others. The essential question--the burning question--is what can we do to become reconnected with what's important? How can we relate to others in life the way we know it could be? Even among Christians, trends toward disconnection and isolation are apparent. We are filled with more biblical knowledge than we are living out day-to-day. Like the rich man who came to Jesus seeking eternal life in Matthew 19, we know the answers to the questions of faith but struggle to answer with our whole lives. How can what we know become what we live? Something's Got To Change
We need to transform the very way we relate to God, others, and ourselves. We must take a radical leap to a new competency in relationship, rather than just an incremental step from the way we related in the past. |
This discrepancy between knowledge and what is lived calls for a transformational breakthrough. More knowledge is not the answer; we've all tried that many times.