AIM - England Sermon

Sailboat: Character is like the keel of a sailboat beneath the water line, where nobody sees. The ballast at the bottom of the keel can weigh up to 8,000 pounds. This weight beneath the waterline enables the sailboat to survive storms and rough seas. No matter how badly the sailboat is battered, thereís a calm assurance that the sailboat will continue the course. Just like a sailboat, weíre going to be tossed in a topsy turvy world between success and failure, victory and defeat. And weíll need confidence that will take us the course though weíre battered.

Article about Mike Plant : http://people.com/archive/taken-by-the-sea-vol-38-no-24/

Example found in book called “Sifted” by Wayne Cordeiro : https://books.google.com/books?id=n3YUcHnrpxwC&pg=PT12&lpg=PT12&dq=wayne+cordeiro+sailboat&source=bl&ots=Nimt9PGGo8&sig=_aqVbOrp48CPlzqGBtpLxccNv-4&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiSjc68mdzWAhWFxlQKHYidCpIQ6AEITzAK#v=onepage&q=wayne%20cordeiro%20sailboat&f=false

Closing:

Kenya. Massai. (show pic). Talk about the celebration of the transition from boyhood to manhood. Then, talk about what happened before the celebration. They had to kill a lion.

1 Peter 5:8 ESV

Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.

Some of us have been two busy celebrating, while the lion is prowling around in the weeds of our life. We feel like we have gone to the next level, when we are still stuck right where we were.