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12/11/15

• Shun pain! • Make prayer occasional! • Major in minors! • Be negative! • Cultivate worry

1I beseech you therefore,! brethren, by the mercies of! God, that you present your ! bodies a living sacrifice,! holy, acceptable to God,! which is your reasonable! service.

Experience a! Discovery Everything we have, ! we have been given.

• Extinguish Hell! • Live like a Chameleon! • Put God in a box! • Guide others with guilt! • Be a spiritual sponge! !

—77 Habits of Highly Ineffective! Christians by Chris Fabry

2And do not be conformed ! to this world, but be trans-! formed by the renewing of! your mind, that you may! prove what is that good and! acceptable and perfect will! of God.—Romans 12:1-2 NKJV

When I Survey the Wondrous Cross! !

Love so amazing, ! so divine, ! demands my life, ! my soul, my all.

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Make a! Decision Everything I have,! I now give.

This decision…! • is personal! !

…a living sacrifice…! !

—Romans 12:1

Do not present your members ! to sin as instruments for! unrighteousness, but present ! yourselves to God as those who! have been brought from death to! life, and your members to God as! instruments for righteousness.! !

—Romans 6:13

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This decision…! • is personal! • involves a process!

This decision…! • is personal! • involves a process! • has everything to do! with life purpose!

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And the world is ! passing away along ! with its desires, but! whoever does the will! of God abides forever.! !

—1 John 2:17

It is high time the ideal ! of success should be! replaced by the ideal ! of service.! !

Live for! Distribution Everything I give, God! blesses and uses for! His glory.

It is high time the ideal ! of success should be! replaced by the ideal ! of service.! !

—Albert Einstein

The service we render to others ! is really the rent we pay for our ! room on this earth. It is obvious ! that man is himself a traveler; ! that the purpose of this world is ! not to have and to hold but to ! give and to serve. There can be ! on other meaning. ! —Wilfred T. Grenfell!

The Problem! We All Face! !

…for all have sinned ! and fall short of the ! glory of God…! —Romans 3:23

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The Penalty We! Cannot Escape! !

For the wages of ! sin is death…! —Romans 3:23

The Passion that ! Changes Everything! !

But God demonstrates His ! own love toward us, in that ! while we were still sinners, ! Christ died for us. !

—Romans 5:8

The Promise that! Calls for Response!

The Promise that! Calls for Response!

…that if you confess with !

For with the heart one !

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your mouth the Lord Jesus and! believe In your heart that God! has raised Him from the dead,! you will be saved.

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believes unto righteousness, ! and with the mouth ! confession is made unto! salvation.—Romans 10:9-10

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