Living a ChristCentered Life in a SelfCentered World

Living a Christ-Centered Life in a Self-Centered World

Living a Christ-Centered Life in a Self-Centered World

Living a Christ-Centered Life in a Self-Centered World - Marriage is about MY needs instead of MY SPOUSE’s needs or OUR needs - Parents are putting more focus on the performance of their children in order to make THEMSELVES look good. - Children have become SELFISH and DISREPECTFUL - Church has become about how YOU feel, YOUR accomplishments and talents, what YOU have to say

Living a Christ-Centered Life in a Self-Centered World Acts 12: 20 -24 20 He had been quarreling with the people of Tyre and Sidon; they now joined together and sought an audience with him. After securing the support of Blastus, a trusted personal servant of the king, they asked for peace, because they depended on the king’s country for their food supply. 21 On the appointed day Herod, wearing his royal robes, sat on his throne and delivered a public address to the people. 22 They shouted, “This is the voice of a god, not of a man. ” 23 Immediately, because Herod did not give praise to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died. 24 But the word of God continued to spread and flourish.

Living a Christ-Centered Life in a Self-Centered World Your conversations are mainly focused on you Lack of concern for other people Indications of being Self. Centered Who is to blame when something go wrong Your response to constructive criticism

Living a Christ-Centered Life in a Self-Centered World

Living a Christ-Centered Life in a Self-Centered World Inconsistent in attendance Quick to leave after worship instead of fellowship Consistently late to worship Self. Centered Worship You don’t sing during worship Your mind is on things other than worship

Living a Christ-Centered Life in a Self-Centered World Psalms 139: 13 -15 (NIV) 13 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. 14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. 15 My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.

Living a Christ-Centered Life in a Self-Centered World Romans 8: 7 -8 (NIV) 7 The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. 8 Those who are in the realm of the flesh cannot please God.

Living a Christ-Centered Life in a Self-Centered World Romans 2: 8 (NIV) 8 But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow evil, there will be wrath and anger.

Living a Christ-Centered Life in a Self-Centered World James 4: 1 -4 (NIV) 1 What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? 2 You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God. 3 When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures. 4 You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God. 5 Or do you think Scripture says without reason that he jealously longs for the spirit he has caused to dwell in us? 6 But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says: “God opposes the proud

Living a World Christ-Centered Life in a Self-Centered Luke 9: 23 -25 (NIV) 23 Then he said to them all: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me. 24 For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will save it. 25 What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, and yet lose or forfeit their very self?

Living a World Christ-Centered Life in a Self-Centered Matthew 6: 25 -34 (NIV) 25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life? 28 “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? 31 So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat? ’ or ‘What shall we drink? ’ or ‘What shall we wear? ’ 32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

Living a Christ-Centered Life in a Self-Centered World …be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life. Hear Romans 10: 17 Live Faithful Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. Believe John 5: 24 Revelation 2: 10 CHRIST SALVATION Be Baptized Repent Luke 13: 3 Acts 2: 38 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall likewise perish Confess Matthew 10: 32 Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven.