You Can Change #11 (Chapter 1)

Have you noticed the similarities between a couple of passages in You Can Change with our church's missions statement as expressed on the banner in our sanctuary?

The Evangelical Free Church of Mt. Morris:

Our passion is the glory of God in Jesus Christ

Savored through worship

Strengthened through discipleship

Spread through witness

Tim Chester in You Can Change:

The message of this book is that change takes place in our lives as we turn to see the glory of God in Jesus. (19)

So whom do we want to be like? What would you like to change? Please don't settle for anything less than being like Jesus and reflecting the glory of God. And what must we do to reflect God's glory? Look on the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. Most of us don't live lives that are considered great by the world. For us, holiness consists not in heroic acts but in a thousand small decisions. But God gives us the opportunity to fill the mundane and the ordinary with his glory. We can be radiators of God's glory in a drab world, reflectors of his light in a dark world. (20)

As our statement says, that's something worth being passionate about!