Sapphire Training Center

Prerequisite:  STC 111 and 112

The hardest changes are from God’s order to God’s new order.

It requires a solid grasp of the past, to know what to keep of the old and what to let go, and a clear vision of the future, to know what untried things to add.

David midwifed a transition, adding music to Israelite worship when he tried to bring the Ark up to Jerusalem the first time.  He botched it badly because he did not retain critical assets from the old – namely proper protocol for the Ark.

His failure to manage the transition wisely cost some people their lives.

The early church was implementing one of the largest transitions in religious history, but some of the Jewish thinkers in their midst were trying to retain a key part of the old order: circumcision.

The leaders of the early church were wise enough to draw ENORMOUSLY from the teachings of the old order, while discarding this, and a few other parts of that order.

The hippocampus, which represents the work of Jesus, is the portion of your brain that mediates the flow from the past to the future, from what has been and is to what might be.  The culture broadly impacts the permissions our hippocampus has to envision a different future.

This class is the sequel to STC 111 which explores how to begin to hack the thalamus, which represents the Holy Spirit.  STC 211 will explore an abundance of transitions in Scripture to develop a pool of principles that can guide us in our own transitions, and to imprint some massive new permissions on our hippocampus.

This class is a prerequisite for STC 212, and for some of the other 200 level classes.

Prerequisites: STC 111, 112, 211

You have already gone through a multitude of transitions since the huge one of being born.  Some were socially mandated like moving from one grade to the next.  Some were voluntary, like marrying.  Some were involuntary, like the death of a loved one.

Some were accompanied by great pomp and circumstance.  Some, like divorce, with great ripping and tearing.

When you gather a list of your top 20 transitions in life, you can find patterns as you answer questions.

-What did I bring forward that I should have left behind?

-What did I bring forward that helped me build a better future?

-What new things contributed to building that new chapter?

-How much larger or better could the new chapter have been if . . .”

Once you see the pattern of your defaults, we can customize a pathway for you to address the unwanted settings on your hippocampus.

This is especially important when the new season is unwanted, unexpected, and violent, like death, divorce or a savage mystery disease.  In places of physical, financial, emotional or spiritual violence, we commonly embrace a more risk-adverse approach to the future.

But those ARE transitions into a future.  And you do have SOME control over the perspective you frame the new season with.  What should it be?  Risk abatement or embracing a radical larger view, while standing on the rubble of the life that once was?

And how do you determine which it should be?