Becoming a Passionate People

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The Church of Christ in Mount Pleasant
November 3, 2009
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Becoming a Passionate People
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Words about Passion
Compassion
Desire
Passion
Affection
Excitement
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What is Passion?

• A powerful emotion, such as love, joy, hatred, or
  anger.
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• Ardent love.
• Strong sexual desire lust.
• The object of such love or desire.
• Boundless enthusiasm His skills as a player
  don't quite match his passion for the game.
• The object of such enthusiasm Soccer is her
  passion.
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What or Where is Your Passion?

• Name Three Points of Passion
• ______________________________
• ______________________________
• ______________________________

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Becoming a Passionate People
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Religious Passion

• Fundamentalist Passions
• A Balanced Biblical Passion
• Liberalistic Passions

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Pauls Passionate Journey

• The Beginning
• But Saul was ravaging the church, and entering
  house after house, he dragged off men and women
  and committed them to prison.
• The Holy Bible English standard version. 2001
  (Ac 83). Wheaton Standard Bible Society.
• The Ending
• Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of
  righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous
  judge, will award to me on that Day, and not only
  to me but also to all who have loved his
  appearing.
• The Holy Bible English standard version. 2001
  (2 Ti 48). Wheaton Standard Bible Society.

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Steps to Transform Your Passion

• Understand Your Passion
• Direct Your Passion
• Live Your Passion

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Understand Your Passion

• Paul knew he needed a change of passion.
• Philippians 33-14
• Paul had reason to boast in his life.
• Paul left all and counted it as rubbish.

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Direct Your Passion

• Paul directed his passion to the truth
• And immediately he proclaimed Jesus in the
  synagogues, saying, "He is the Son of God." And
  all who heard him were amazed and said, "Is not
  this the man who made havoc in Jerusalem of those
  who called upon this name? And has he not come
  here for this purpose, to bring them bound before
  the chief priests?" But Saul increased all the
  more in strength, and confounded the Jews who
  lived in Damascus by proving that Jesus was the
  Christ.
• (Acts 920-22)

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Live in Your Passion

• For me to live is Christ, to die is gain.
• (Philippians 121)
• Realize you are Christs. (Philippians 312)
• Forget the things that are behind. (Philippians
  313)
• Press toward the prize. (Philippians 314)

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Results of Passionate People

• For I am already being poured out as a drink
  offering, and the time of my departure has come.
• I have fought the good fight, I have finished the
  race, I have kept the faith.
• Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of
  righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous
  judge, will award to me on that Day, and not only
  to me but also to all who have loved his
  appearing.