T.H.E.O.S. COVENANT
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PERSONAL COMMUNION	ELEMENTS OF THE T.H.E.O.S. COVENANT	COMMUNITY FELLOWSHIP
Personal Worship	TRUSTING IN GOD’S TRANSCENDENCE [1]	Corporate Worship
Personal Prayer	HEARING GOD AND HEEDING HIS HIERARCHY [2]	Accountability (in Men’s Group)
Personal Bible study	EDUCATION ABOUT GOD’S ETHICS [3]	Biblical worldview schooling
Personal Obedience	OBEYING GOD TO BE STRENGTHENED BY HIS OUTCOMES [4]	Administration of Sacraments
One-on-one Outreach	STRENGTHENING COVENANTAL COMMUNITIES TO FULFILL GOD’S PLAN OF SUCCESSION [5]	Church Planting and Cultural Reformation
Endnotes	Endnotes relating the above Covenant model to Tim Voorhees' life plan	Endnotes relating the above Covenant model to Saddleback Church
[1]	Trust in God’s covenantal purpose , the power of prayer, the promises and principles of Scripture, the positive outcomes of obedience, and the post-millennial hope of God’s will being done on earth as in heaven.	WORSHIP - to magnify how we experience and appreciate God's transcendence
[2]	Heed God as He reveals Himself through Christ, His Church (Covenantal Community), His Counsel, and His Calling for each person	CONNECT - to connect with God, Godly leaders, and other members of God kingdom
[3]	Educate daily about His Purpose, Peace, Stewardship, and Discipleship	SERVE - to minister to others
[4]	Obediently steward time, talents, treasures, and trust to realize God's blessings and avoid idols, especially those revealed in the calendar, checkbook,  resume, and 360 surveys	GROW - to experience greater maturity as a blessing of obedience
[5]	Strengthen a covenantal understanding of God at the personal and community level	SHARE - to use blessings for missions that build the church and extend the Kingdom
	BOOKS RELATED TO ABOVE PERSONAL COMMUNION AND COMMUNITY FELLOWSHIP THEMES
TOPIC	TITLE	AUTHOR
Personal Worship
	Knowing God (1973)	Packer, J.I.
	The Pleasures of God (1992)	Piper, John
	The Holiness of God (1985)	Sproul, R.C.
	The Pursuit of God (1949)	Tozer, A. W.
Personal Prayer
	The Only Necessary Thing: Living a Prayerful Life	Nouwen, Henri J.M.
	Classic Sermons on Prayer	Wiersbe, Warren
	Living the Lord's Prayer: Our Power and Promise	Johnson, Ben
	Handbook  to Renewal: Renewing Your Mind With Affirmations from  Scripture	Boa, Ken
	Handbook to Prayer: Praying Scripture Back to God	Boa, Ken
	Pray with Your Eyes Open	Pratt, Richard
	Power Through Prayer (Barbour, 1984)	Bounds, E. M.
	Powerful and Prayer Pulpits	Bounds, E. M.
	Purpose in Prayer	Bounds, E. M.
Personal Bible study
	John Calvin's Sermons on the Ten Commandments	Calvin, John
	The Westminster Confession and Catechisms	Westiminster Divines
	Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion	Calvin, John
	Evidence that Demands a Verdict (1979)	McDowell, Josh
	Collected Works	Schaeffer, Francis
	Christianity and Liberalism (1923)	Machen, Gresham
	Myths, Lies, & Half-Truths: How Misreading the Bible Neutralizes Christians	Bahnsen, Greg
	By this Standard	Bahnsen, Greg
Personal Obedience
	The Practice of the Presence of God	Brother Lawrence
	He Speaks to Me Everywhere: Meditations on Christianity and Culture	Ryken, Phil
	Christ’s Call to Discipleship	Boice, James
	The Divine Conspiracy	Willard, Dallas
	Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God	Willard, Dallas
	The Spirit of the Disciplines: Understanding How God Changes Lives	Willard, Dallas
	Idols for Destruction (1983)	Schlossberg, Herbert
One-on-one Outreach
	Born Again	Colson, Chuck
	Always Ready: Directions for Defending the Faith	Baynsen, Greg
	Every Thought Captive	Pratt, Richard
	The Defense of the Faith (1955)	Van Til, Cornelius
Corporate Worship
	Worship. Reaching Out without Dumbing Down	Dawn, Marva
	Give Praise to God: A Vision for Reforming Worship	Boice, James et al
	Preaching with Purpose	Adams, Jay
Accountability
	Beyond Promises: A Biblical Challenge to Promise Keepers	Wilson, Doug
	Man in the Mirror	Morley, Pat
	Doctrine of Repentance	Watson, Tom
Biblical worldview schooling
	God and Man at Yale	Buckley, William
	Darwin on Trial (1991)	Johnson, Phillip
	Modern Times (1983)	Johnson, Paul
	The Harsh Truth about Public Schools	Shortt, Bruce
	Excused Absence: Should Christian Kids Leave Public Schools?	Wilson, Doug
	Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning	Wilson, Doug
	No Place for Truth (1993)	Wells, David
	Fit Bodies, Fat Minds: Why Evangelicals Dont Think and What to Do About It	Guiness, Os
	The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind	Noll, Mark
	Basic Christianity (1971)	Stott, John
Administration of Sacraments
	The Peacemaker	Sande, Ken
	Dining with the Devil: The Mega Church Flirts with Modernity	Guiness, Os
Church Planting and Cultural Reformation
	A Christian Manifesto	Schaeffer, Francis
	The Church Effeminate & Other Essays	Warfield, Benjamin
	Bleeding of the Evangelical Church	Wells, David
	One Holy and Happy Society: The Public Theology of Jonathan Edwards	McDermott
	How is the Gold Become Dim:	Smith, Morton
	God in the Wasteland: the Reality of Truth in a World of Fading Dreams	Wells, David