Change Starts Here

Opening Framework:

(Sermon series intro) Scripture 2 Kings 5:1-5

Message Title: Change Starts Here

Prayer

Transition Statement

Me: New Year - New Resolutions?

We commit to change… Until Jan 10th

Kat and I know this problem well

We often do this with the right and wrong too

Romans 7:15, 19, 24 - Paul understood trying to do right, but struggling to do it.

We: What’s an area of your life where you need transformation?

We usually want God to change our circumstances, not us. (Transform my finances - I’m bad with money, fix me)

The problem is we don’t know how change work

Jerry Bridges said: God then me God not me God Through Me

Real change starts with a spiritual transformation

God: Naaman learned it the hard way

2 Kings 5:5 - He thinks it’s God then me

2 Kings 5:9-11 - He think’s it’s God not me

Then he gets it… it starts right here. God’s trying to something in you.

Recap the rest

You: Lasting Change

Imagine if you stopped striving and started relying on God through the process

Paul understood that it was God through me also! 1 Corinthians 15:9-10 - God Through Me

Porn example

You’d have...

1. A life of humility & obedience to God

2. Freedom from guilt and failure

3. Confidence in God “God I can’t do this… help me take the next step.”

We: We go from being a surviving church to a thriving one...

With everything we have the church in America is surviving...

EVERYTHING… yet the weakest Christians

Alter call: ____________________