Introduction to the Plan The Plan exists to guide a Christian into purposeful Christian planning. It is a planner, tracker, and goal-setter to guide a Christian in maturing as a disciple of Christ and multiplying disciples for Christ in the regular rhythms of each week. The Plan is structured to facilitate planning and progress with these two important wills of God in view. Christians don’t need a new plan but need to plan for and around God’s great plan in and through them. The Plan points the Christian in five daily directions to ground the Christian in his or her role as a disciple and disciple-maker: upward, downward, backward, forward, and around. Dashed traceable symbols along the top of each weekly planner page offers the believer an opportunity to track their daily progress in looking upward in prayer, downward into God’s word, backward to the truths of the gospel, forward into ministry, and all-around illustrating God’s mission to evangelize the world. These five directions form the foundation of the planner and are trackable via tracing the dashed symbols in each of the five directions as they are completed on a daily basis. At the bottom of each weekly planner page are two sections labeled “disciplines of delight” and “disciple-making disciplines.” The “disciplines of delight” allow the planner to track additional items daily (customizable by the user) and the “disciple-making disciplines” spurs the planner to think and commit to discipleship patterns with others weekly (see pages 14-15) Overall, from top to bottom, the weekly planning page prompts and prepares a Christian to invest him or herself in being a disciple and making disciples, first. However, the middle of the weekly planning pages, filled with daily hour-long planning slots and a weekly to-do log, fill the majority of the planner’s space and structure. The Plan is designed to bookend our plans with God’s plans for our lives. Therefore, The Plan keeps God’s plan in focus as you make your plans throughout the week.
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