We are learning to enter the distance between ourselves and others through relational instruction in the Bible. “We do our best work and live our best lives when we charge into the vast space between ourselves and others.” Joshua Wolf Shenk in Powers of Two: Finding the Essence of Innovation in Creative Pairs. …
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I prepared far too much information for my previous weekend message and only progressed through half of the material. Following are the notes of this presentation. The second message will begin near the middle of the notes. “We do our best work and live our best lives when we charge into the vast space between …
Reaching my fullest potential is enhanced by friendships of association, loyalty and affection. Pastor Clinton Fick, “People mostly need help making friends.” Often the friendship conversation includes Aristotle’s three types of friendships from Book VIII of The Nicomachean Ethics written sometime around 350 B.C. Friendships of Utility Friends who are conveniently helpful to your life …
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My fullest potential in Christ is most realized through a growing positive faith attitude from God. Confidence in God is one of many components to Christian faith. For most people studying with us today, God’s capacity, compassion and character are well established. 17 ‘Ah, Lord God! It is you who have made the heavens and …
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Becoming people of fully realized potential in Christ requires holding and being held by a positive faith attitude. A concept in a previous message was, “In making decisions always measure the strength of the “yes” votes not the “no” votes.” You are, in fact, determining the power of the positive faith attitude not …
To become a person of fully realized potential I must develop and maintain a positive faith attitude. Pastor Neale Sheneman, founding pastor of MCA Church, read Norman Vincent Peale’s “The Power of Positive Thinking” every year. The following comparison between negative self talk and positive thinking is from “Positive Thinking: Stop Negative Self Talk …
People of fully realized potential are aligned with the nature, character and will of God in their spirit, soul and body. Today’s primary Bible text is 1 Thessalonians 5:23-28. 23 Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus …
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Becoming a person of fully realized potential requires embracing the world of possibilities. What are the possibilities for you when your spirit, soul and body are all in alignment with the thoughts, nature and character of God, in whose image you are created? What is the nature of the link between the non-material …
We become people of fully realized potential when the Holy Spirit comes upon us (including our body). We are investigating the complete integration of the spirit, soul and body for purposes of reaching our maximum potential in Christ. In a previous message we considered the two-tiered philosophy of our day. For example, the …
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We become people of fully realized potential in and through our bodies. I am me. The human is created by God as a three-part unity; spirit, soul and body. Without my spirit, I am not fully me. Without my soul, I am not fully me. Without my body, I am not fully me. …
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