I hope you will change your mind

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I hope you will change your mind
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I hope you will change your mind

• Being like minded is one element of unity.
• Unity is a key to receiving Gods richest
  blessings.

Finally, brothers, rejoice. Aim for restoration,
comfort one another, agree with one another, live
in peace and the God of love and peace will be
with you. 2 Corinthians 1311 (ESV)
Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers
dwell in unity! 2 It is like the precious oil on
the head, running down on the beard, on the beard
of Aaron, running down on the collar of his
robes! 3 It is like the dew of Hermon, which
falls on the mountains of Zion! For there the
Lord has commanded the blessing, life
forevermore. Psalm 1331-3 (ESV)
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I hope you will change your mind

• We are a team with one owner, one captain and one
  job to do.
• How we reach our goal is being mapped out by the
  captain and the officers according to the wishes
  of the owner.
• It will be difficult for us to get where we need
  to go unless everyone is pulling in the same
  direction.

Finally, brothers, rejoice. Aim for restoration,
comfort one another, agree with one another, live
in peace and the God of love and peace will be
with you. 2 Corinthians 1311 (ESV)
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I hope you will change your mind

• There are different ways to be out of synch
  with the team.
• Disengage emotionally.
• Resist.
• Do your own thing.

Whoever is slack in his work is a brother to him
who destroys. Proverbs 189 (ESV)
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I hope you will change your mind

• Leaders are never perfect.
• Leadership is challenging.
• Leaders need your support.

14 I am not able to carry all this people alone
the burden is too heavy for me. 15 If you will
treat me like this, kill me at once, if I find
favor in your sight, that I may not see my
wretchedness. Numbers 1114-15 (ESV)
16 Then the Lord said to Moses, Gather for me
seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you
know to be the elders of the people and officers
over them, and bring them to the tent of meeting,
and let them take their stand there with you. 17
And I will come down and talk with you there. And
I will take some of the Spirit that is on you and
put it on them, and they shall bear the burden of
the people with you, so that you may not bear it
yourself alone. Numbers 1116-17 (ESV)
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I hope you will change your mind

• Repentance means to change your mind.
• How we think affects what we do.
• Our heart attitude is everything.

For as he thinks within himself, so he is. He
says to you, "Eat and drink!" But his heart is
not with you. Proverbs 237 (NASB)
O my son, give me your heart. May your eyes take
delight in following my ways. Proverbs 2326
(NLT)
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I hope you will change your mind

• Where your heart attitude may be out of synch
  with what we doing and where we are going as a
  church, I hope you will change your mind.

For as he thinks within himself, so he is. He
says to you, "Eat and drink!" But his heart is
not with you. Proverbs 237 (NASB)
O my son, give me your heart. May your eyes take
delight in following my ways. Proverbs 2326
(NLT)
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I hope you will change your mind

• Our goal for 2009 is really quite simple we
  want to fulfill our mission statement.
• Love God with all our hearts.
• Love our neighbors.
• Make disciples.

37 And he said to him, You shall love the Lord
your God with all your heart and with all your
soul and with all your mind. 38 This is the
great and first commandment. 39 And a second is
like it You shall love your neighbor as
yourself. Matthew 2237-39 (ESV)
19 Go therefore and make disciples of all
nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father
and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20
teaching them to observe all that I have
commanded you. And behold, I am with you always,
to the end of the age. Matthew 2819-20 (ESV)
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I hope you will change your mind

• Our goal for 2009 is really quite simple we
  want to fulfill our mission statement.
• Love God with all our hearts.
• Love our neighbors.
• Make disciples.

• Love the Word of God
• Worship
• Pray

• Be Hospitable
• Reach out to your neighborhood.
• Serve in the Community

• Join the gym.
• Get a personal trainer.
• Become a personal trainer.

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All Aboard!