“I can’t. He can.”
The Mindset #4 Retreat helps believers experience the freedom that comes from moving away from self-reliance and into full dependence on God. Through honest reflection, guided teaching, and shared testimony, the Mindset Square becomes a simple tool for spiritual formation, mentoring, discipleship, and everyday gospel conversations.
- See where your heart truly is on the Mindset Square.
- Learn how hearts move toward dependence on God.
- Use the T-Shirt as a mentoring and discipleship tool.
- Turn your testimony into a simple visual story of grace.
Mindset #4 Retreat
A guided Friday through Sunday journey designed to move hearts from self-reliance to full trust in Jesus Christ. Each session aligns with the Leadership Guide and helps believers understand, share, and live their testimony of dependence.
Where is your heart?
Friday night introduces the Mindset Square, helping participants place their “dot” honestly before God. This session focuses on self-awareness, confession, and understanding the spiritual patterns of fear, pride, and self-powered religion.
How hearts change
Saturday morning explains how God moves people toward surrender. Using Scripture and real-life examples, participants learn the practices of daily dependence: Scripture, prayer, repentance, humility, and surrender.
Your testimony on the Square
Saturday afternoon turns the diagram into a storytelling tool. Participants learn how to map their spiritual journey visually and express it with clarity, humility, and Christ-centered hope.
What Happens During the Retreat
Five sessions. One diagram. Lifelong formation.
Honest evaluation. Identifying your mindset. Naming what influences your trust.
Learning the daily practices that move us upward and rightward toward Mindset #4.
Mapping your spiritual journey visually and turning it into a gospel story.
Using the shirt’s front and back as a natural evangelism and mentoring tool.
Daily surrender, daily dependence, and a commitment to disciple one person.
Mindset #4 becomes a lifestyle reinforced by testimony, mentoring, and mission.
Leadership Resources
Everything you need to lead your own Mindset #4 Retreat.
Mindset #4 Leadership Guide
A complete 40 page leadership manual explaining every session in detail. Includes teaching notes, discussions, exercises, and facilitator tips.
Leader Presentation Slides
A fully prepared slide deck matching the Leadership Guide, ideal for churches, retreats, small groups, and discipleship gatherings.
The Mindset #4 T-Shirt
The front expresses surrender: “I can’t. He can.” The back gives you a discipleship and evangelism tool you can wear anywhere.
When someone asks, “What does your shirt mean?”
The shirt gives you a natural way to talk about surrender, grace, transformation, and hope. You can explain how Jesus moved you from self-reliance to dependence.
- The gospel: “I discovered I can’t fix myself but God can.”
- Discipleship: “This diagram shows where my heart is with God.”
- Testimony: “This is the movement God has made in my life.”
How the T-Shirt Helps You Disciple Others
The shirt becomes a visible reminder for believers who meet with others in mentoring, accountability, or discipleship. When two people wear it, the diagram creates a shared language of spiritual honesty and surrender.
- Use the front phrase as a weekly posture of surrender.
- Use the back to discuss spiritual movement with someone you mentor.
- Encourage others to place their dot emotionally, relationally, and spiritually.
Putting it on resets your heart
Every time you pull the shirt over your shoulders, let it be a prayer: “Lord, today I surrender again. Move my dot upward and rightward.” The shirt becomes a daily ritual of dependence.
How Mindset #4 Helps You and Your Church
The Mindset Square is simple enough to draw on a napkin but deep enough to disciple a church.
A daily heart check
The Square helps believers locate their trust each day. Fear, pride, or a mix of both can pull us into self-reliance. Mindset #4 calls us back to trust God fully.
- Journal with the diagram.
- Pray: “Move my dot upward and rightward.”
- Reflect on surrender and dependence.
A shared language for mentoring
Small groups, families, and discipleship pairs gain clarity as they talk through movement on the Square. Growth becomes measurable, specific, and humble.
- Ask weekly: “Where is your dot?”
- Pray for movement together.
- Use the shirt as a mentoring tool.
A natural way to speak of Christ
The shirt and diagram help you explain how Jesus brings peace, humility, and new life. People are drawn to clarity and authenticity.
- Offer hope to those in fear.
- Challenge gently those who trust in themselves.
- Explain grace to those performing spiritually.
Tell your story simply
Mindset #4 provides a template for testimony: “I used to live here on the Square, but God moved me.”
- Plot your journey on the Square.
- Use the back of the shirt to illustrate.
- Invite others to consider their own dot.