Resilience (Matthew 5:11-12)

Were you persecuted for your faithful witness to Christ? Were you mocked and persecuted and lied about because of Jesus?  Fired, ostracized by family/friends, faithful to the point of death?  Boldly witnessed for Jesus? 

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Make a list of people who you think may not know the Lord

Make a plan to witness to them over the next twelve months

Eliminate actions that hurt your witness (drinking, smoking, gambling, cursing, etc)

Standing firm in your faith by defending it strongly at every opportunity

Being living examples of your faith 

Hiding your faith at work, in public, and at home

Living like people who are not believers

Investments (Matthew 6:19)

Did you store your treasures in heaven not here on earth?

Two bank accounts (earth and heaven) are there more deposits in heaven than on earth? 

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Tithing

ABC’s of Financial Freedom course

Put a plan in place to get out of debt

Incurring more debt

Charging stuff you cannot pay for before interest and penalties are incurred

Reducing your living expenses to where you make more than you spend 

Binge buying

Buying stuff you don’t “need”

Secrecy  (Matthew 6:3-18)

Did you seek the praise of Christ or people? 6:3 Did you give your financial gifts to the needy in secret?  6:6 Did you pray to your Father secretly? 6:17 Did you fast in secret? You will be rewarded by the person whose praise you seek.

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Find a quiet place where you can pray “privately” and start praying there

Fast occasionally for a meal or two or a day.

Give financial gifts without expecting acknowledgment

Pray privately more often

Fast more often

Give more gifts (financial or other)

Jesus Love( Luke 6:32-36)

Did you only love the lovable or did you love the unlovable as well?  Did you “Love your enemies and did you do good to them”?  

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Make peace with a family member or neighbor or coworker who has wronged you

Hating others

Not forgiving others

 Make an effort to mend damaged or broken relationships

Finding fault in others

Judging other people

Benevolence ( Luke 14:12-14)

Did I care for the disadvantaged?  Did you do things for those who cannot repay you?

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Work (Col. 3:22-25)

Did you do your work as if you were working for Jesus? Did you obey your employer at all times?  Did you obey your earthly masters in everything you did?  Did you try to please them all the time?  Did you work hard and cheerfully at whatever you did? Are you a disciple of Christ cleverly disguised as a plumber, executive, etc…………..?

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Commit yourself to working every day as if the Lord were your boss

Giving less to work by overstaying breaks, lunch, surfing the net, doing personal business at work

Give extra efforts to every job/project you do

Make your boss look like a genius

Grumble and gripe and gossip

Coming to work unprepared physically, mentally, spiritually

Doctrine (2John 1:8-11)

Did I guard Biblical doctrine and grow in its knowledge and passionately defend it. (Doctrine is what the Bible says about a given subject.)

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Learn the core doctrines: The Bible, the Trinity, God, Jesus, Holy Spirit, Man, Salvation, Baptism, Eternal Security, The Lord’s Supper, etc

Being ignorant or uninformed of the core doctrines as taught at Crossroads

 Review core doctrines so that you are comfortable in knowing when you hear error being taught

Call people out when you hear false doctrine

Allowing someone to misstate core doctrine and thus mislead people

Ministry ( 1Thess 2:19)

Did you invest your human resources for Christ or spend them on myself? What did you pour into people (did we shepherd people) small group leader, youth minister etc?  

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Determine your spiritual gifts and begin serving in areas that align with your gifts:(Instructional = evangelizing, teaching, pastoring, leading, administrating, etc. or Helpful= serving, exhorting, hospitality, etc

Spending all your God given resources on getting what you want, entertaining yourself, etc

Find opportunities at work, at home, and at Crossroads to serve more fully

Punching a ticket for “one time” service rendered

Excusing yourself from contributing your gifts to the kingdom

Watchfulness (2Tim. 4:8)

Did you live for “The Day” or today?  Did you live your life longing for and anticipating the day you would be with Christ forever? Did you make yourself fully available for Christ?  

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Praying that God will use you and the gifts He gave you “today” and “everyday”

Evaluate yourself occasionally by taking “The Final Exam” from this course

Dreading the thought of getting up, going to work, going to Church, etc

Being fearful about “today”

  Be more available for God to use you “today”

Making excuses about why you have or have not begun living the life that Christ commanded us to live

Motives (1Cor. 4:5)

What was the motive for each of the works you did? Were they pure motives based on Christ’s love? If your motive for doing something was wrong, Jesus will not credit it to you.  

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Examine your motives for the “works” you are currently doing.

Doing things so “God will owe you something back”

Doing things where you are looking for people to praise you

Clearing up your motives about what you are doing and planning to do.

Trying to impress people with your “works”