Life Change (5-26-24)

Life Change
May 26, 2024

IT’S EASY TO DRIFT IN LIFE

What causes you to unintentionally drift through life?

“Sustainable life change takes place in the context of intentional relationships.”

-Andy Stanley

PETER vs PAUL

Galatians 2:11-14

But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned. For before certain men came from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles. But when they arrived, he began to draw back and separate himself from the Gentiles because he was afraid of those who belonged to the circumcision group. The other Jews joined him in his hypocrisy, so that by their hypocrisy even Barnabas was led astray.

When I saw that they were not acting in line with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in front of them all, “You are a Jew, yet you live like a Gentile and not like a Jew. How is it, then, that you force Gentiles to follow Jewish customs?

PAUL’S SUSTAINED LIFE CHANGE WAS A DIRECT RESULT OF INTENTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS.

How are you pursuing intentional relationships within the church?

2 Corinthians 4:16

Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.

ARE WE WILLING TO OPEN OURSELVES UP TO INTENTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS WITH THE HOPE OF OUR LIVES BEING CHANGED?

Ephesians 4:14-16

Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of people in their deceitful scheming. Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ. From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work.