“Overcoming The Challenge Of Change, Part 1: Jesus Makes Change Possible”
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Introduction: Change If Difficult
Introduction: Change If Difficult
Four Strategies For Overcoming The Challenge Of Change by Candice Gottlieb-Clark- President and Founder of Dynamic Team Solutions.
If you feel overwhelmed by change, you’re among a large piece of the population. Whether it’s planning for your child’s move to college or a detour on your morning commute, change can be isolating, infuriating and seemingly impossible to deal with. When change is rearing its head in the workplace, it can seem even more difficult. From new management or shifting team roles to modifying your routine or adjusting to a new position, office change takes commitment and dedication to get through.
Psychologist’s say change is difficult because:
Our Past Affects Our Behavioral Choices
Our Core Identity Drives Behavior
You Don’t Know Your “Why”
You Walk The Path Of Least Resistance
We Are Wired To Mirror Others
The reality is that change tends to be particularly difficult when you don’t have an understanding of what needs to change, you don’t have the skills or knowledge to change it, or you lack awareness for why the change is actually needed.
Transition To Body- What about When the LORD God calls you to change
Transition To Body- What about When the LORD God calls you to change
When you are not called or unable to change the location/environment & you are the one called to change which can in turn change the culture & community.
What ought to drive or motivate our desire to please God?
Titus 3:4 (TNTC Past Epist): The second word love (philanthrōpia) was normally used of love towards individuals in distress, but when predicated of God it denotes love to mankind at large. In Acts 28:2 it is used of human kindness. It has been suggested that the special application of the word to the ransoming of captives may be implied here (cf. Lock).
1 Remind them to be submissive to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work,
2 to speak evil of no one, to avoid quarreling, to be gentle, and to show perfect courtesy toward all people.
3 For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another.
4 But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared,
Incarnate Savior reveals God’s goodness & loving kindness
Incarnate Savior reveals God’s goodness & loving kindness
(philanthropia) Jesus mercifully saves ( it because of our works done by us in righteousness)
Goodness
Goodness
the quality of being helpful or beneficial, goodness, kindness, generosity
Loving kindness
Loving kindness
affectionate concern for and interest in humanity, (loving) kindness, of God
22 Note then the kindness and the severity of God: severity toward those who have fallen, but God’s kindness to you, provided you continue in his kindness. Otherwise you too will be cut off.
7 so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
12 Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience,
Appeared
Appeared
to cause someth. to be seen, show
to provide illumination, give light to
to make one’s presence known, become apparent
show oneself, make an appearance
Appearance of God’s grace
Body
Body
5 he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,
Mercy- kindness or concern expressed for someone in need, mercy, compassion, pity, clemency
Compassionate Cleansing From Sin
Compassionate Cleansing From Sin
Washing- the bath that brings about regeneration
1 Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions.
2 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin!
3 For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me.
4 Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment.
7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
25 Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,
26 that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,
27 so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.
Regeneration of Redeemed Person
Regeneration of Redeemed Person
Regeneration- experience of a complete change of life, rebirth of a redeemed person
17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
18 All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation;
19 that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.
2 This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.”
3 Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
5 His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.”
6 Now there were six stone water jars there for the Jewish rites of purification, each holding twenty or thirty gallons.
7 Jesus said to the servants, “Fill the jars with water.” And they filled them up to the brim.
8 And he said to them, “Now draw some out and take it to the master of the feast.” So they took it.
Renovation of the Holy Spirit
Renovation of the Holy Spirit
Renewal- renewal; of a person’s spiritual rebirth
10 Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.
11 Cast me not away from your presence, and take not your Holy Spirit from me.
12 Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and uphold me with a willing spirit.
16 For you will not delight in sacrifice, or I would give it; you will not be pleased with a burnt offering.
17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
1 I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.
2 Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
Transition To Close
Transition To Close
Play named Pygmalion (puhg-may-lee-uhn) 1938
George Bernard Shaw gave an ancient Greek legend a twentieth-century twist when he retold the story of Pygmalion in 1938. In the legend, Pygmalion creates a wonderful statue of a maiden and begs the gods to gibe the statue life, which they do. Warner brother’s classic musical My Fair Lady is another version of the same story.
Shaw’s adaption features a professor, Henry Higgins- the world’s leading authority on speech and diction. The professor’s friend Colonial Pickering bets Higgins that he can’t take a Cockney flower girl and pass her off as a lady after just three months of instruction. This challenge is too much to resist for the haughty Higgins, and he chooses Eliza Doolittle as the object of his experiment.
With drills, lessons and insensitive threats, Higgins drives Eliza like a slave master. At one point Higgins says, “Eliza, you’re an idiot. I waste the treasures of my Miltonic mind on you.” Pickering tries to soften the professor’s treatment of Eliza, but to him she is nothing but a laboratory experiment.
The great day arrives, and Higgins unveils his “experiment” at a royal reception. Eliza enters wearing jewels and a gown. She walks gracefully, demonstrates impeccable manners, and dances divinely. Her diction is pure, her conversation refined. No one dreams that Eliza is a “guttersnipe,” and she becomes the toast of London. Higgins later touts his own genius: “I created this thing out of squashed cabbage leaves.”
After the reception as Higgins and Pickering unwind in the study, they hardly notice Eliza. Finally she confronts the might professor: Yes, he may have change her dialect, but the kindness of Colonial Pickering changed her heart. He is the real Pygmalion. His gentle affirmation through months of criticism and toil made the difference. Eliza then says to Colonel Pickering, “I owe so much to you…It was from you that I learned really nice manners, and that’s what makes one a lady, isn’t it?”
Pickering bashfully responds, “No doubt. Still he taught you to speak, you know, and I couldn’t have done that.”
“Of course,” says Eliza. “That was his profession. It’s just like learning to dance in the fashionable way, nothing more that that in it. You what began my real education? Your calling me ‘Miss Doolittle’ that day when I first came to the professor’s study. that was the beginning of self-respect for me. You see, the difference between a lady and a flower girl isn’t how she behaves. It’s how she is treated. I know that I shall always be a flower girl to Professor Higgins because he always treats me as a flower girl and always will. But I know that I can be a lady to you because you always treat me as a a lady and always will.”
Guttersnipe-a scruffy and badly behaved child who spends most of their time on the street.
I Know I’ve Been Changed by LaShawn Pace
You know that (I know I've been changed)
I said that (I know I've been changed)
(I know I've been changed
Angels in Heaven done signed my name)
Well, if you don't believe that I've been redeemed you know
The angels in Heaven done signed my name
Oh, follow me down to that old Jordan stream
(Angels in Heaven done signed my name) I stepped in the water
And the the water was cold (The angels in Heaven done signed my name)
(Oh, it chilled my body but not my soul
Angels in Heaven done signed my name)
(I know I've been changed
I know I've been changed
I know I've been changed
Angels in Heaven done signed my name)
Close- The Day God Showed us much difficult Change can be
Close- The Day God Showed us much difficult Change can be
Jesus brought salvation for all people
Jesus brought salvation for all people
11 For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people,
12 training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age,
13 waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ,
14 who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2 He was in the beginning with God.
11 He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him.
12 But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,
13 who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.
14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.