Boundless Love: A Women of Faith Interactive and Application Guide
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Over 345,000 women attended the 2001 Women of Faith conferences and experienced the fun, fellowship, and excitement for which the conference is widely known. Now, Women of Faith is offering the core message of the six dynamic speakers, in a Bible study for group or personal use. This unique application guide will include an outline of the talk given, excerpts from the talk that lead into questions for reflection or study, Bible references that delve deeper into the topic of dicussion, and a life application section. Each of the WOF speakers offers unique perspective and insight that will touch every woman at any point on the journey to becoming a more whole woman with a vital, living faith. Topics and speakers are:
- Sheila Walsh: Boundless Love
- Patsy Clairmont: Fearless Love
- Thelma Wells: Lavish Love
- Barbara Johnson: Stubborn Love
- Marilyn Meberg: Outlandish Love
- Luci Swindoll: Intentional Love
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Boundless
Love
A Women of Faith® Interactive
and Application Guide
BoundlessLove_0001_002BOUNDLESS LOVE: A WOMEN OF FAITH INTERACTIVE AND APPLICATION GUIDE
© 2002 W Publishing Group. All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or any other—except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the publisher.
Published by W Publishing Group, a Division of Thomas Nelson, Inc., P.O. Box 141000, Nashville, TN 37214.
Unless otherwise indicated, Scripture quotations used in this book are taken from the New King James Version (NKJV), copyright © 1979, 1980, 1982, 1992, Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Other quotations are taken from the following sources:
The King James Version of the Bible (KJV).
The Message (MSG) by Eugene Peterson. Copyright © 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000. Used by permission of NavPress Publishing Group. All rights reserved.
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ISBN 0-8499-4379-5
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Contents
His Love Never Ends
Getting the Most from Your Boundless Love Conference Experience
SESSION 1 : Introduction
Sharing a Laughter-Filled Life: Ooey-Gooey Love Stories, Tattoos, Tangled Kite Strings, and Grandma-Style Goofiness
SESSION 2 : Boundless Love
Sheila Walsh: It’s Time to Fly!
SESSION 3 : Fearless Love
Patsy Clairmont: What Weapon Do You Reach for When Fear Comes Barking?
SESSION 4 : Lavish Love
Thelma Wells: God Loves You—from Genesis to the Maps
SESSION 5 : Stubborn Love
Barbara Johnson: Getting What We Don’t Deserve
SESSION 6 :Outlandish Love
Marilyn Meberg: Surviving Those Whale-Belly Experiences
SESSION 7 : Intentional Love
Luci Swindoll:Going God’s Way (Whether We Like It or Not!)
SESSION 8 : Wrap–Up
Sheila Walsh: Little Gifts of Love to Take Home
His Love Never Ends
Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; his love endures forever.
—1 CHRONICLES 16:34 (NIV)
The lights go down, the praise goes up, and the Women of Faith Boundless Love conference sweeps you into an uproarious celebration of the boundless, fearless, lavish, stubborn, outlandish, intentional love of God.
Warning: When you’ve completed this conference experience, you won’t be the same woman you were when you started. Throughout these laughter-lined, tear-cleansed, heart-thrilling sessions led by speakers Sheila Walsh, Patsy Clairmont, Thelma Wells, Barbara Johnson, Marilyn Meberg, and Luci Swindoll, you’ll come to know and personalize God’s unfathomable love for you in a way you’ve probably never felt before. As these dynamic Christian speakers share lessons and insights focused on the boundless love of God, you’ll feel yourself being renewed, restored, and readied to pass along the blessings of that love to others. In the time ahead, we hope the teaching of Ephesians 5:1 will become a way of life for you:
Watch what God does, and then you do it, like children who learn proper behavior from their parents. Mostly what God does is love you. Keep company with him and learn a life of love. Observe how Christ loved us. His love was not cautious, but extravagant. He didn’t love in order to get something from us but to give everything of himself to us. Love like that. (MSG)
Getting Getting the the Most Most . .from Your Boundless Love Conference Experience
The Women of Faith Boundless Love conference features six outstanding speakers who offer their perspectives on the nature of God’s boundless love and the profoundly personal effect it can have on the lives of women. This interactive and application guide has been designed to help you enjoy, remember, reflect on, and apply the wisdom and lessons shared by these six enthusiastic sisters in Christ.
We’ve organized the materials into a series of eight sessions, but of course you can use the videos and workbook any way you choose. You may enjoy using these materials on your own as a richly rewarding daily devotional. If so, you have the freedom to choose your own scheduling and timing preferences.
If you’re sharing the Boundless Love conference experience with others, we’ve included two lesson-plan formats for each session to assist groups both large and small. Choose the format that works best for your allotted time and setting.
Promoting Your Gatherings
Showing the seventeen-minute Introduction and Welcoming Vignettes on Tape 1 is a great way to promote your upcoming Women of Faith Boundless Love conference experience. The zany introductory video and insightful (and funny) vignettes give potential participants an idea of the format and content of Boundless Love. It also encourages them to register and get the workbooks so they can participate.
Choosing a Group Format and Planning the Sessions
The Boundless Love Women of Faith Interactive and Application Guide offers two outlined formats for use with small or large groups. If you have ninety minutes or more to devote to each session, you can use the Full-Length Option. If you only have sixty minutes to spend per session, the Fast-Track Option will probably work best for you. The difference in the two options is that the Full-Length Option includes showing each speaker’s two-minute Welcoming Vignette before her main presentation (or having a participant read aloud the vignette script); on the Fast-Track Option, you read the script before the session begins and then skip directly to the main presentation. The other difference in the two options is that the Full-Length Option allows time for discussing the Back-Stage Pass Bible Studies as a group. If you follow the shorter Fast-Track Option, you or your group members should use the Bible studies as a means of reviewing the topics between sessions.
Because these video presentations were originally taped during a weekend Women of Faith conference, they make an excellent series for a Friday-night/all-day-Saturday schedule, such as a women’s retreat, a weekend church-women’s conference, or similar gathering.
Managing Your Time
If you’re using the videos and workbook in a group setting, we encourage you to stick to the proposed schedule as much as possible. Gently encourage the women to participate and express their thoughts but to keep their remarks brief. Don’t let discussions wander off-topic. Group gatherings—especially gatherings of women who may have family, work, or schooling commitments—are most successful when participants can depend on every session beginning and ending on