FOUR STEPS FORWARD Going into the New Year with purpose

“You can’t build a reputation on what you’re going to do.” - Henry Ford

Practice these things, immerse yourself in them, so that all may see your progress. (1 Timothy 4:15, ESV)

Four Steps Forward 1.Disrupt your regular routine –INSANITY? Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results

Four Steps Forward 1.Disrupt your regular routine –Bible Words for CHANGE? perfect, mature, grow add to, transform, renewal new covenant, new birth new creature, new self Knowledge is growth! Only if you’re an encyclopedia

Bible words for mediocre, in a rut, apathy So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth. (Revelation 3:16, ESV) Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. (Romans 12:2, ESV) But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first. (Revelation 2:4, ESV)

Four Steps Forward 1.Disrupt your regular routine 2.Face your first failure While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior. Henry C. Links

For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin. Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need. (Hebrews 4:15-16, ESV)

Four Steps Forward 1.Disrupt your regular routine 2.Face your first failure 3.Break down your tasks

For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what a person has, not according to what he does not have. (2 Corinthians 8:12, ESV)

Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.” (Matthew 28:19-20, ESV) Just Listen, Invite, Love, Give of self, Invite again.

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. (Ephesians 6:4, ESV) Just Teach, Model, Train, Love, Spend time with

Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love. (Ephesians 4:15-16, ESV) Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, for giving one another, as God in Christ forgave you. (Ephesians 4:31-32, ESV)

“Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.” - Ray Croc

Four Steps Forward 1.Disrupt your regular routine 2.Face your first failure 3.Break down your tasks 4.Remember the big picture

He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him. And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together. And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent. For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross. And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him, (Colossians 1:13-22, ESV)

And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.” (Mark 12:30-31, ESV)

…do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. (Philippians 4:6-7, ESV)

“It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.” - Harold Green