Today's Message is entitled BECOMING: Winners

On the dusty shores of Galilee, Jesus finds men either washing their nets, sitting under a tree or wasting their lives away at a tax booth. It is at their lowest moments in life that he invites them to follow Him on a journey that will completely transform their lives; which up until that time hadn't amounted to much.
Like the young men in the time of Christ, so many of us are busy spending our time and energy trying to make a living, yet we find ourselves losing at life. For too many of us, we find ourselves sitting in a place we don’t want to stay, wondering if this is all there is. We feel powerless to change our situation...we feel like losers.
Then Jesus enters the scene. He walks up to us, looks on us with absolute love and invites us to become winners.
To BECOME like Christ is to BECOME a winner in life.
It's time to win!

We were CREATED to WIN

- God CANNOT lose

We were CREATED to WIN

- We were BORN losers

We were CREATED to WIN

- Statistically...the church has been losing

- 200 million non-churched (4th largest unchurched nation)
- 3500 churches close their doors annually
- 4 of 5 churches are plateauing or declining
- U.S. church membership was 70% or higher from 1937 through 1976, falling modestly to an average of 68% in the 1970s through the 1990s. The past 20 years have seen an acceleration in the drop-off, with a 20-percentage-point decline since 1999 (Gallup)
- In 2050 % of US population will be 1/2 of what it was in 1990.
- Since the turn of the century, the percentage of U.S. adults with no religious affiliation has more than doubled, from 8% to 19% (Gallup)

We were CREATED to WIN

- We need to ask WHY

Winning is a MINDSET

- Winners have a PLAN

Winning is a MINDSET

- Winners PLAY the LONG GAME

Winning is a MINDSET

- Winners HATE to LOSE

Winning is a MINDSET

- Winners are WILLING to SACRIFICE

Winners get PAID

- It's all about PROFIT

Winners get PAID

- There can only be ONE

Winners get PAID

- It's time to CHOOSE sides

Paul regarded himself as a signal trophy of God’s victorious power in Christ. His Almighty Conqueror was leading him about, through all the cities of the Greek and Roman world, as an illustrious example of His power at once to subdue and to save.
Jamieson, R., Fausset, A. R., & Brown, D. (1997). Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (Vol. 2, p. 303). Logos Research Systems, Inc.

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