Today's Sermon:
A Series on Character: Week 3- Integrity

I. Defining Integrity:

II. The Fruit of Integrity:

“As we integrate and become whole, each time we take a step, there is no dysfunction that makes us end up two steps back. Integration brings the greatest amount of fulfillment for everyone concerned, and the greatest wake wherever we go.”
-Henry Cloud,Integrity

III. The Path to Integrity

A. Sweat the....

B. Listen to Your ....

“Here is a list of things that the voice might tell us if we are integrated enough to listen: This doesn’t feel quite right. I really don’t feel comfortable doing this or agreeing to this. This is not what I really want. I don’t like what I am agreeing to, or part of me doesn’t. This violates an important value. I am going to resent this later. I am going to resent this for a long time. I resent this now. I wish this were not happening. This feels the same as the last time.”-Henry Cloud,Integrity

C. Pursue .....

D. Be Held .....

“Who is pushing you to grow? Who is supporting you to grow? Who is pushing you past the level at which you already are? Where is the encouragement coming from? The number one reason for lack of growth in people’s lives, I have observed, is the absence of joining forces outside themselves who push them to grow. Instead, they keep telling themselves that they will somehow, by willpower or commitment, make themselves grow. That never works. But if they enlist a coach, join a group, get a counselor, a community of growth, or some outside push, then the growth begins to happen…These people do not enable us to remain the same by rescuing us, believing our excuses, explaining away our faults, or anything like that. They caringly walk alongside us, but hold us to the path at the same time.”
-Henry Cloud, Integrity

E. Keep Your .....

F. Make .....

G. Be ....