Publisher's Synopsis
The ValueGiver Study Guide is the study companion for the book, The ValueGiver, by Dallas Elder. In The ValueGiver, Elder speaks to the depreciating power of issues like rejection, failure, inferiority, injustice and prejudice among others. He describes how people often assess their value as a person from these experiences, leaving them with a deep deficit of self-worth. He relates how God loves us (as illustrated through the life of Jesus-The ValueGiver) and how that through His grace and power, we can be redeemed from the past and its depreciating experiences. Furthermore, Dallas Elder underscores the tendency that people have to view and relate to others through the lens of their own value. People often assign value to others based upon their own assessed value. Devalued people devalue others, or put others down to elevate themselves. He illustrates ways that we can increase worth and appreciate value in others. The ValueGiver Study Guide, is written in a workbook format that easily helps the individual to work through the chapters of The ValueGiver in 13 lessons. Through discovery questions, personal reflection exercises and a fluid pace, the author leads the individual to a fuller understanding of how to receive true worth as a self-image statement. By identifying areas of personal depreciation and working through them, people are helped to gain positive self-image affirmation through God's love. It is a guided journey to overcome negative life messages and experiences that form a distorted self-image and limited life vision. Through examining related Scripture passages and probing real life questions that lead to personal discovery and clear steps of personal decision, Dallas Elder guides individuals buried under inadequacy, inferiority and despair on to a pathway of healing, help and hope. It is an uplifting process for people to realize the redemption of their true worth, potential, purpose and destiny. The ValueGiver Study Guide helps people to get deeper into the topics and issues that have affected their lives and sort through their "stuff," to get over their stuff with God's help. Through simple principles, spiritual insights, practical wisdom and concrete steps, people are invited to move beyond their devaluing mindsets and confining views of themselves, to receive their true worth from a loving God. You will discover areas of your life where you need inner healing and freedom. You will realize distorted things that you have believed about yourself, God and others. You will come to understand how these distorted views are hindering your life and happiness. By illustrating how we've all been affected, in various ways, by family dysfunction, injustice and painful life experiences, you will learn how you can prayerfully release your hurts and hang ups to God. With His help, you can change your habits and patterns of living. You can also change how you relate to others. You can receive the full value of the precious worth that God has always intended for you. You can also learn meaningful ways of lifting others up into their created worth. The ValueGiver Study Guide was designed for individual study and personal growth but also for use in a small group. At the end of the book, there is a section entitled Small Group Leadership Helps to assist the small group leader to facilitate a study group. There are 13 lessons and so a weekly group study can complete The ValueGiver and The ValueGiver Study Guide in 13 weeks, by handling one lesson per week.
