CORE VALUES

Each Thursday morning as a group we do leadership training for about two hours. This week, we talked about the core values of Mosaic but for the most part we focused on each of our respective core values. This is a small snipet of what having a core value(s) is about:

Value > Belief > Thoughts > Actions

Basically, everyone on the planet has core values. Whether or not they know it or not, they do. You value something and if you value it then you believe in it (or care about it) and what you believe in the most you think about a great deal and then your actions reflect that.

So how do you find what your values are - how do you use your banking resources (i.e. how do your spend your money)? how do you use your leadership and influance? what do you do with your time? We made a list of the top five things for each questions:

Banked Resouces:
- Tithe, Gas, Bills, Friends, Food

Leadership Used:
- by serving, growing other in God, in thought, by love, in community

I use my time:
- Sleeping, Reading, Working, With Friends, Eating

It was an interesting time of Q&A and figuring out things about myself and each other. After this session, my core values revolve around people and personal growth in Christ. And not to mention food ;-)

We were given an exercise for the rest of the internship on how to further cultivate our core values and really grow them using the Character Matrix of Gratefulness, Humility and Faithfulness

Gratefulness - Each Day write out 10 things you are grateful for and thank someone for them

Humility - Each Day write out three things you are good at and flesh them out

Faithfulness - Each Day write out three things you don't want to do and then do them!

What the difference between Core Values and Vision is a little fuzzy to me right now, but I think I will hash that out shortly.

It was a great session!! I need some prayer on the daily activites list but I really believe that if i do those things, God is going to do some amazing things!