J2:Session 9

How It Works

BIG IDEA: The Horizon Storyline is the right amount of vision content and the right amount of time as we look into the future, which provides the break-thru you need to take the next step in your life.

• Redraw the Vision Frame and label the different parts of the frame, alongside the primary question that each part of the frame is answering:
  • LifeCall: the WHAT question
  • LifeCore: the WHY question
  • LifeSteps: the HOW question
  • LifeScore: the WHEN (win) question
  • Place the WHERE question in the middle of the frame to demonstrate that the Horizon Storyline tool helps us answer this dynamic question in creating our future (“Where is God taking me?”)
• Draw the picture of the mountains, path and sign inside the frame and demonstrate the three horizons that our literal eyes focus on (background, midground and foreground)
• Briefly describe the four parts of the Horizon Storyline and how they correlate to the picture.
  • Beyond the Horizon= (1) three-year vision of the future
  • Background Horizon= (4) one-year objectives
  • Midground Horizon= (1) ninety day goal
  • Foreground Horizon= (4) weekly action steps

How It Works

BIG IDEA: God uses His design of our abilty to envision to propel us forward into the places He is calling us.

• Encourage the participants to place themselves three years into the future, thinking through what they hope their life will look like. This imaginative exercise should include how old their kids will be, what life stage they will be in, where they will be living and a number of other questions about the future.
• Having done this, participants come up with an image or metaphor for what they hope their life will be like three years from now.
• Once participants have identified a guiding metaphor or image, have them come up with a short phrase to describe that metaphor in action
• Now having the short phrase, participants identify up to nine vivid bullet-point descriptions of what their life will look like three years from now.
• Have participants share their metaphors, short phrases and vivid bullet-point descriptions with each other.

How It Works

BIG IDEA: – “One-Year Objectives bridge the gap between your favored future and your particular present.” – Will Mancini

• Use the Background Horizons worksheet to help participants answer the questions:
  • Where are they at? (Exercise done on pg 4)
  • Where are they going? (Exercise done on pg 74)
  • How are they going to get there?
• Participants have already answered the first two columns on the worksheet in previous exercises. Have them look at the completed exercises on page 6 and 74 in their Participant Guide and ask the question, “How do I get from here to there? And what all has to happen?”
• Have them write that list of things in the third column.
• Remind the participants that the third column represents everything that has to happen over three years.

• Encourage participants to group and prioritize the most important things that must happen this year, into four, one-year objectives.
• The boxes on the bottom of the worksheet are where they can articulate their four 1 year objectives.