Venture Church
Your "big fat 'I'" is always going to let you down.
Change is a journey – not an event.
Colossians 3:1-7 NIV
Repentance is throwing in the towel on your way and accepting God's way.
How to Repent
I. Embrace Your Identity
Colossians 3:17 NIV
Happiness is based on the right thing happening; joy is living fully and freely in Christ.
The secret to a changed life - the best life - is not what's happening to you; it's what's happening in you.
your "looking glass self" - an identity based on what you believe other people think of you
2 Types of Identity:
1. achieved
"Let it go." - Queen Elsa of Arendelle
2 Types of Identity:
1. achieved
2. received
God doesn't fatigue of your failures.
Romans 8:17 NIV
Zephaniah 3:17 NIV
Ephesians 1:4 NIV
Colossians 1:22 NIV
How to Repent
I. Embrace Your Identity
II. See Your Tendencies
1 Corinthians 10:13 NIV
How to Repent
I. Embrace Your Identity
II. See Your Tendencies
III. Do Some Surgery
"Be killing sin, or sin be killing you." - John Owen
3 Ways to Put Sin to Death Daily:
1. Set some boundaries.
- drugs
- alcohol
- lust
- overspending
- food
2. Tell a friend.
3. Admit your mistakes early and often.
Admit - Confess - Turn
Repentance is identifying and removing the little idols of your heart.
Check yourself before you wreck yourself.