Pew2You
Pastor Joe Fitzgerald
Living Faith Fellowship
Happy New Year!
Highlights:
1. We want to change. If we are honest, we will all admit that there are times that we really don’t like ourselves. We are disappointed in our own character choices.
2. We need to change.
3. We can change. “If I want to change, I have to change.”
– a purpose bigger than me
– accountability
– realistic expectations
– a tangible goal
Discussion Questions:
1. Remember Pastor Joe’s illustration of the blueberries and the Snickers bar? In your life, what is lacking its true flavor because of counterfeit substitutions?
2. What areas has God pinpointed in your life that are opportunities for change?
3. What about repentance is so important in the process of really changing?
Key Scriptures and Quotes:
-So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are in conflict with each other, so that you are not to do whatever you want.
Galatians 5:16-17
-for it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose.
Philippians 2:13 NIV
-To this you were called, because Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his steps.
1 Peter 2:21 NIV
-And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.
2 Corinthians 3:18 NIV