YOUR INVESTMENTS DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORPORATION 1957 While working

YOUR INVESTMENTS

DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORPORATION • 1957 - While working together in the Lincoln Laboratory at MIT, Ken Olsen and Harlan Anderson came up with the idea for DEC. • 1958 The first product DEC created and sold was its Digital Laboratory Module. Staying true to its business plan, the initial product lines DEC focused on were modules, or electronic components, that were mounted to circuit boards. By the end of that year, DEC sold $94, 000 worth of its first product. • 1960 DEC began selling its first computer at the end of 1960. But it was aware of people’s reluctance to invest in “computer” technology at the time, so it named the computer a “programmable data processor”, or PDP. The first iteration of this product line (PDP-1) sold for $120, 000 that year. • 1964, DEC announced the PDP-6 -- carrying a price tag of $300, 000. • 1970 In the interim, DEC came up with a revamped version of their PDP line and released the PDP-11 minicomputer. Not only did it bring major upgraded features to their computing machines, it also was easier to use. By the time it stopped selling it in the 1990 s, DEC sold over 600, 000 of them, making it one of the most popular minicomputers ever.

DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORPORATION • 1974 DEC became recognized as a Fortune 500 company. • 1985 DEC registered dec. com. • 1988 DEC was recognized as one of the premier leaders in computing when it was named the second largest computer company, just behind IBM. At the time, it had generated over $11 billion in revenue and had over 120, 000 employees. • 1998 The official end of DEC as a standalone company came in 1998 when it was acquired by Compaq for $9. 6 billion. Unfortunately, Compaq didn’t know what to do with DEC’s overseas business, and so it was inevitable that neither DEC nor Compaq would exist for much longer. That day came in 2002 when Hewlett-Packard acquired Compaq.

DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORPORATION • Thought they had made it • Refused to reinvest in itself • Refused to change • Afraid to admit they had a problem

OTHER COMPANIES THAT HAVE DONE THE SA

AS CHRISTIANS, WHERE SHOULD WE BE INVESTING? • Our Church Family • Ourselves

WE MUST…. • Realize we can still grow • Be willing to invest our time (selfless) • Be willing to change • Not be afraid to admit there might be a problem • Invest in courage

OUR CHURCH FAMILY • How well do you know everyone here? • How well do know their successes, struggles. • How often do you visit with each other? • How often do you encourage one another? • How often do you pray for each other?

THE EARLY CHURCH

ACTS 2: 43 -45 • 43 Everyone kept feeling a sense of awe; and many wonders and signs were taking place through the apostles. 44 And all those who had believed were together and had all things in common; 45 and they began selling their property and possessions and were sharing them with all, as anyone might have need.

ACTS 4: 31 -33 • 32 And the congregation of those who believed were of one heart and soul; and not one of them claimed that anything belonging to him was his own, but all things were common property to them. 33 And with great power the apostles were giving testimony to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and abundant grace was upon them all.

1 THESSALONIANS 5: 11 • 9 For God has not destined us for wrath, but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, 10 who died for us, so that whether we are awake or asleep, we will live together with Him. 11 Therefore encourage one another and build up one another, just as you also are doing.

OUR FAMILY • Do we invest in our marriages? • Do we invest in our children?

OUR MARRIAGE

EPHESIANS 5: 28 • So husbands ought also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself;

HOW DO WE TREAT OUR WIVES?

WE MUST ASK OURSELVES • Is this how I would want to be treated? • Is this example I want to set for my children?

COLOSSIANS 3: 19 • Husbands, love your wives and do not be embittered against them.

EPHESIANS 5: 33 • Nevertheless, each individual among you also is to love his own wife even as himself, and the wife must see to it that she respects her husband.

YOU WANT YOUR WIFE TO RESPECT YOU?

LOVE HIS (YOUR) OWN WIFE EVEN AS HIMSELF

EPHESIANS 5: 25 • Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her,

1 PETER 3: 1 • In the same way, you wives, be submissive to your own husbands so that even if any of them are disobedient to the word, they may be won without a word by the behavior of their wives,

EPHESIANS 5: 24 • But as the church is subject to Christ, so also the wives ought to be to their husbands in everything.

WE MUST WORK ON MARRIAGES EVERYDAY

WE MUST INVEST IN OUR CHILDREN

DEUT 6: 7 -8 • 7 You shall teach them diligently to your sons and shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way and when you lie down and when you rise up. 8 You shall bind them as a sign on your hand they shall be as frontals on your forehead. 9 You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

EPHESIANS 6: 4 • 4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

COLOSSIANS 3: 20 -21 • 20 Children, be obedient to your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing to the Lord. 21 Fathers, do not exasperate your children, so that they will not lose heart.

1 TIMOTHY 3: 4 • 4 He must be one who manages his own household well, keeping his children under control with all dignity

WE MUST INVEST IN OURSELVES

2 TIMOTHY 2: 14 -16 • 14 Remind them of these things, and solemnly charge them in the presence of God not to wrangle about words, which is useless and leads to the ruin of the hearers. 15 Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, accurately handling the word of truth. 16 But avoid worldly and empty chatter, for it will lead to further ungodliness,

1 CORINTHIANS 3: 1 -3 • 3 And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual men, but as to men of flesh, as to infants in Christ. 2 I gave you milk to drink, not solid food; for you were not yet able to receive it. Indeed, even now you are not yet able, 3 for you are still fleshly. For since there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not fleshly, and are you not walking like mere men?

HEBREWS 5: 11 -13 • 11 Concerning him we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing. 12 For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you have need again for someone to teach you the elementary principles of the oracles of God, and you have come to need milk and not solid food. 13 For everyone who partakes only of milk is not accustomed to the word of righteousness, for he is an infant.

1 PETER 2: 1 -3 • 2 Therefore, putting aside all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander, 2 like newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the word, so that by it you may grow in respect to salvation, 3 if you have tasted the kindness of the Lord.

WHAT DO WE LONG FOR?

DO WE LONG FOR THE WORD OF GOD?

DOES YOUR SPIRITUAL HOUSE LOOK LIKE THIS?

INVEST IN THE WORD GOD!

INVEST IN • Ourselves • Our Family • Our Church

1 PETER 2: 5 • 5 you also, as living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house for a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

AND YOU CAN MAKE SOMETHING THAT LOOKS LIKE THIS!

LOOK LIKE THIS!