Christians and Others

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Christians and Others

• Philippians 2 1-4

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Shirley MacLaine

• The most pleasurable journey you take is through
  yourself...the only sustaining love involvement
  is with yourselfwhat you really find out is that
  the only person you really go to bed with is
  yourselfThe only thing you have is working to
  the consummation of your own identity. And thats
  what Ive been trying to do all my life.

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Consider God

• The beginning and the heart of the matter is that
  we begin by putting God before ourselves
• S. MacLain's words express the essence of the
  human problemhuman brokenness

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Consider God

• Genesis 34-7
• The core of the fall was deeper than the fact
  that they disobeyed God
• The core of the fall was that they were declaring
  independence from God

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Consider God

• Our nation has been a chief pacesetter in
  championing the value of the individual and the
  rights of the individual.
• We have our own Declaration of Independence

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Declaration of Independence

• All men are created equal, that they are
  endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable
  Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and
  the pursuit of Happiness.

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Consider God

• These ideas were never meant to promote the idea
  of the radical individual or individualism
• In the best of western tradition the individual
  is seen as important because they are made in
  Gods image, and the individual is said to find
  meaning in relationship to God

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Invictus
I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable
soul Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is
bloody but unbowed. I am the master of my fate I
am the captain of my soul
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Amazing Grace
Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound That saved a
wretch like me I once was lost but now am
found, Was blind, but now I see. The Lord has
promised good to me His word my hope secures He
will my shield and portion be, As long as life
endures
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