1.
The 20 sessions of this seminar present 26 biblical guidelines for making
good decisions in life. The importance of understanding the distinction
between God's sovereign will and God's moral will is presented, and the
means that God uses to direct our path is explained.
http://www.growingchristians.org/courses/christian-decision-making/
THE WILL OF GOD
AND MAKING DECISIONS

2.
Decision making is a
very important part of
life.
How do we make the
right decisions?
Life is one long string
of decisions.

3.
God love you
and has a plan
for your life….
Trust God and
let His word
guide you.

4.
God only gives
us general moral
guidelines.

5.
The best teachers don’t give you the
answers. They just point the way and
let you make your own choices.”

6.
OBJECTIVES
• Introduction
• Concepts for Understanding God’s Will
• Means for Directing Our Paths
• Guidelines for Making Right Decisions
• Conclusion

7.
GOD’S SOVEREIGN WILL ALLOWS FOR FREE CHOICE
And in heaven, it will be that way once again.
AT CREATION, THERE WAS NO SEPARATION
BETWEEN GOD’S SOVEREIGN WILL AND
GOD’S MORAL WILL
What God
would “like”
us to do for
our own good

8.
Ideally, the
question is how
to get or stay
within the dotted
line?

9.
Ideally, we start with the moral guidelines and if we
follow the means (i.e., arrows - the tools God provides)
we will be guided into God’s will.

10.
What is we make
a wrong decision
and get off track.
God can always
find a way to get
back on track.

11.
The 7 Cs – The “Means” God
Uses to Direct Our Paths
• Communication
• Conviction
• Common Sense
• Composition
• Counsel
• Circumstances
• Control

12.
The Means
(No
Sequence,
but Must be
used together
Communication
Conviction
Common
Sense
Composition
Counsel
Circumstance
Control

13.
Communication
• One “C” does carry more weight than
the others.
• The primary way God communicates
with us is through His Word.
• And prayer is how we communicate
with God.

14.
Conviction
• Always balance your convictions with the
guidelines in the Bible.
• The more principles/general guidelines
we know the more obvious your course of
action will be.
• e.g. the guidelines found in Deut. 6:7 and Heb. 10:24,25
clearly indicate we should not apply for a job that would
prevent you from fulfilling your family and church
responsibilities.

15.
Common Sense
•God gave us common
sense
•He expects us to use it.

16.
Composition
• God made you and he gave you certain
• personality traits,
• desires,
• appearance characteristics,
• mental abilities,
• physical abilities, etc.
• These are all means he uses to guide us.

17.
Counsel
• Plans fail for lack of counsel (Prov.
15:22)
• A wise man is he who listens to
counsel (Prov. 12:15)
• Where there is no guidance the people
fall, but in abundance of counselors
there is victory (Prov. 11:14)
• Wisdom is with those who receive
counsel (Prov. 13:10)

18.
Circumstances
• God does open and close doors
• However, we must be careful to
not make decisions based
“only” on circumstances.
• Satan can manipulate
circumstances.
• The other Cs will keep you from
reading too much or too little
into circumstance

19.
Control
•At times God steps in and
takes control
•He steps in because of
•Impending danger
•A future unlikely turn of
events
•To deliver us from the
dilemma of doubt

20.
Control
•At times God steps in and
takes control
•He steps in because of
•Impending danger
•A future unlikely turn of
events
•To deliver us from the
dilemma of doubt

21.
Keep the Cs in Balance and .

22.
You can listen
to the rest of
the seminar
where he goes
through each
one of these.
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ns.org/courses/christian-
decision-making
.