I got this about a month ago and worked through it in the following two weeks. I'm in my early sixties and have the majority of my physical and earthly spiritual life behind me. Still, I found the workbook helpful. It has not been a "reset" for me but going through the exercises definitely helps me focus on applying the years ahead to follow and collaborate with God to "save many lives."
The book helps the readers see our earthly lives as subplots in God's eternal storyline. God's purpose is to "save many lives"; ours should be the same.
Miller skillfully leads the reader through a series of exercises to review his or her life to-date, and note the ups and downs. The reader is to describe a "theme" for his/her life. Then, reviewing the "downs", Miller helps the reader discover the redemptive perspectives, i.e. how God uses the major negative events for redemptive purposes.
Then it's a big step forward to note our roles. A role may be a parent, husband, worker, employer, or whatever role we see ourselves playing in God's storyline and in our subplots among our spheres of influence. We are then asked to list our ambitions or goals, followed by a number of exercises, all done prayerfully before God, to result in the visualization of the achievement of the goals (celebrations) and an action plan (inciting incidents) to take us there.
The "methodology" is not earth-shatteringly new but its spiritual context is what makes it really useful for those who seriously pursue deeper meanings and more worthwhile purposes in life than just living out a life driven by self-centered and temporal desires. Miller consistently urges his readers to pursue the steps in his workbook prayerfully before God, so as to establish ambitions that are in line with God's purpose to save many lives. Through this focus, the readers learn to apply themselves to things that are more gratifying not only for the readers but also for those in their spheres of influence in the long term.
Last but not the least is the online tool that Miller provides for each reader to record our roles, ambitions (goals), inciting incidents (action plans), and our celebrations when we achieve our ambitions. Each role will include one or more ambitions, and each ambition will have its own "story" comprising the above components. When an ambition is celebrated, the story can be archived. The reader can create many roles and stories, although Miller cautions against creating more than five roles at any one time. Using this tool, the reader can work out their lives' storylines forever and ever, or as long as Miller maintains the website. Each role and story, by the way, can be marked private or public, depending on whether one wants to share with the Storyline 2.0 community.
I recommend this workbook for those who would like to pursue a life in collaboration with God's purposes for humankind. It will help us focus on what really matters, assess our ups and downs of life in the context of a loving and purposeful God, identify through what roles we can contribute to God's purpose and find meaning for our own lives, establish worthwhile goals, and develop a plan to get there.
I like this so much that I have convinced my weekly small group to go through it with me.
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