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The first waypoint on the In Step Pathway has to do with investing intentionally in your inner life formation and growing the intimacy of your relationship with the triune God of the nations. Just like buildings need solid foundations and trees need strong roots, a healthy inner life must undergird a global worker’s outer life. The Inner Formation waypoint fosters intimate communion with the triune God and a very personal exploration of His ongoing creative and redemptive movement. Your inner life of remaining in Christ is what sustains your outer life (John 15:1-11).

As a global worker, you face pressure to perform, show results, and stay “productive” in ministry. Sadly, too many of us neglect our inner life to our own or our family’s detriment while we do the outer strategic work of ministry. As a global worker, it’s often easier to focus on completing ministry tasks than attending to the formation of your inner life, which includes dealing with brokenness and sin and patiently investing time to allow God’s deep work to happen in your life. The Lord’s love transforms us (Ephesians 3:14-19) as we learn to enjoy being with Him, draw near to Him, and experience His pursuant care. In your journey, you can richly benefit from having an experienced guide, whether a coach, counselor, mentor, or friend, to help you find breakthroughs.

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The second waypoint on the In Step Pathway emphasizes learning to pay attention to God, yourself, and others. This waypoint calls for noticing how God is at work in your life and responding to His invitation to join Him. Noticing requires that you adopt a posture of curiosity and paying attention. This spiritual attunement can increasingly focus your life and ministry as you observe where and how God is at work in yourself and others and then partner with Him in growth and development.

Living in step with the Spirit (Galatians 5:25) requires listening to the Good Shepherd. Jesus said that His sheep know His voice (John 10:1-5, 14), so “voice recognition” is something we desperately need to cultivate. Maybe you’ve been in a place where it’s hard to hear God’s voice or to be sure that what you hear is indeed God’s voice. The Noticing waypoint helps you cultivate a recognition of your Good Shepherd’s voice.

Another aspect of Noticing is examining your life story to see more clearly God’s movement throughout your lifetime. As you notice God in your story, you adopt a sovereign mindset and become more attuned to perceive His movement today. You can cultivate a developmental bias, intentionally spotlighting the shaping activity of the Spirit of God in the lives of others in order to help them also notice. As you practice noticing, a companion can help you on your pathway, whether a coach, mentor, counselor, or spiritual friend.

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The third waypoint on the In Step Pathway is about growing self-awareness by exploring calling, strengths, gifts, and passions. God invites Christ-followers to serve strategically in His mission, having created and gifted each one uniquely for service in His kingdom. Exploring and identifying the strengths and gifts God has given you helps you steward your influence as you choose to honor your unique shaping by God because you are “fearfully and wonderfully made” (Psalm 139:12-16).

The God of the nations invites each Christ-follower to live in step with what He is doing in the world. He strategically calls His followers to be on mission with Him (Psalm 67:1-2, John 20:21, Acts 1:8). This waypoint includes a process to help you create a “being” statement and a “doing” statement, emphasizing that your “doing” flows out of your “being.” Discovering spiritual gifts, natural abilities, and acquired skills and how they blend helps you grow in self-awareness, focus your ministry, and increase your missional impact. An In Step companion can help you explore how God has shaped you, which leads you to know your Creator more intimately.

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The fourth waypoint on the In Step Pathway addresses the journey into a deeper trust in and reliance on God. Your choice to live in step with the God of the nations leads you to increasingly rely on God’s sovereign perspective, His deep love, His constant presence, and His abundant power. This trust requires intentional cultivation in each of us (Jeremiah 17:7-8). As you increasingly depend upon God’s trustworthiness, you will also become more trustworthy, developing a solid base for your leadership.

The Trusting waypoint invites you to develop your theology of hardship and suffering, largely through an accompanied exploration of your past struggles and wounds, as God often uses difficulties, pain, and adversity in Christ-followers’ lives to take us deeper into intimacy with Him. This process sheds light on the lies you have believed about your identity and highlights the reality of your identity as a dearly loved child of God. This waypoint also guides you into embracing gratitude as a spiritual practice to deepen your trust in God as you become increasingly aware of His many gifts (Isaiah 25:1).

Issues that often surface in this profound work include worth, acceptance, approval, ambition, drivenness, and others. As you discover and embrace God’s trustworthiness, you learn to rest in Him and live out of your true identity, and you will also have a deep well from which to empower others. A guide who walks with you can enrich this process of deepening your trust in God.

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The fifth waypoint on the In Step Pathway encourages developmental relationships. Empowering calls for establishing and maintaining a particular perspective of relationships, considering the value of having people who invest in you and people in whom you invest (Proverbs 27:17). As Christ-followers, we can intentionally invest in each other’s growth, whether through discipling, mentoring, teaching, or other kinds of relationships.

Each of us needs a blend of developmental relationships in our lives to be empowered to be who God created us to be and do what God designed us to do. A healthy global worker has a variety of developmental relationships for support and growth. Instead of buying into the idea that a good worker always knows what to do, you can benefit from the rich resources of various developmental relationships, like mentoring, coaching, spiritual direction, spiritual friendship, and pastoral care. Spiritual companions will help you live in step with the Spirit for the duration of your life (Romans 1:11-12; Ecclesiastes 4:9-12).

Developing those coming behind you also helps you grow as you encounter new perspectives and recognize the importance of modeling the way, not just imparting information. The In Step Pathway can help you cultivate a developmental bias, which includes having a healthy blend of developmental relationships. A companion with a developmental bias can offer significant help in your own pursuit of such a bias.

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The sixth waypoint on the In Step Pathway guides the pilgrim to embrace the journey of living well to the end, finishing this life even more in love with Jesus at the end than at the beginning. You can adopt and nurture a lifelong perspective of your journey with the Lord and His shaping movement in your heart and mind. The In Step Pathway is a guide to help you on your lifelong journey of knowing Christ intimately and making Him known in all the earth (Colossians 3:1-2).

In Step incorporates the metaphor of a pilgrimage on a pathway of ever-deepening intimacy with the triune God, Father, Son, and Spirit. The Camino de Santiago is a long pathway across northern Spain that countless people have experienced with various motivations. Camino is Spanish for “way” or “path,” and the In Step Pathway invites you to consider yourself a pilgrim on such a camino. For many people, the journey's endpoint is the motivator, but true pilgrims, whether literal or metaphorical, recognize the value of the journey itself, with all of its ups, downs, struggles, and views along the way (2 Corinthians 4:16-18). Remember that the company of a fellow pilgrim enriches the pilgrimage experience.

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