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Purpose-Led Discipleship · Abide

A linked sample retreat schedule.

This is one adaptable planning example. Change the day, starting time, lunch, and breaks to fit your setting while keeping the four movements in order and protecting time for reflection and closing. Highlighted teaching and response times open the exact matching place in the online Participant Workbook.

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9:00 AM–4:00 PM

Abide: A One Day Retreat Experience

The day moves from receiving Christ’s invitation, to recognizing false sources, to staying through difficult seasons, and finally to living from the Vine in ordinary life.

Highlighted entries open the matching place in the Participant Workbook.

Saturday

Remain. Receive. Respond.

Retreat schedule

  1. Welcome, worship, and settlingOpen workbook Arrive honestly and become present to God.
  2. Movement One: Remain Before You ProduceOpen workbook Receive the invitation to relationship before activity.
  3. BreakRest, refreshments, and quiet.
  4. Movement Two: What Are You Asking to Hold You?Open workbook Name false sources of safety, worth, and control.
  5. LunchEat, connect, and let the morning settle.
  6. Quiet returnReenter the day without rushing.
  7. Movement Three: When Remaining Feels HardOpen workbook Abide through silence, waiting, pain, and uncertainty.
  8. BreakMove, breathe, and receive care.
  9. Movement Four: Living From the VineOpen workbook Build a life of receiving, responding, and bearing fruit.
  10. Closing response and commissioningOpen workbook Receive, release, remain, and return to ordinary life.