Dealing%20With%20Darkness

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Dealing With Darkness

• Darkness provides light an opportunity.

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40 Years of Stress

• Vietnam
• Watergate
• Abortion legalized in US and around the world
• Israel - Palestinian conflict Munich Olympics
• 1st Mideast Oil troubles remember when gas went
  over 1 per gallon?
• Idi Amin South Africa
• 18 Inflation
• Cold War Nuclear threats

• Iran Hostage Crisis
• AIDS
• 1st Iraq War Bosnia
• 1st World Trade Center bombings
• OJ Branch Davidians
• Somalia
• 2nd World Trade Center Attack and 2nd Gulf War
• Hurricane Katrina
• Darfur (Sudan)
• Etc.

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Personal and Local Issues

• family problems
• local issues
• economy downturn in this region, Xenia tornado
  April 3, 1974
• church problems
• health problems

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Ways To Deal With Stress Darkness

• Chicken Little Approach
• Doomsday Approach
• Woe is me Approach
• Quit exaggerating! Approach
• Well fix it Approach
• The Christian Perspective

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The Christian Perspective

• Romans 131-7
• 1 Timothy 21-2
• Christians are different from the world
  regardless of where they live.
• Matthew 514-16
• 1 Peter 211-12, Ephesians 58-12

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Conclusion

• Staying the spiritual and faithful course is the
  call of every Christian in every place and at
  every time.
• - Public opinion changes.
• - Gods word and His standard of righteousness
  never change.
• Christians are called to be faithful, sowers of
  the gospel and examples of the right kind of
  life!

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Conclusion

• People who are interested in serving the Lord are
  called by Him by the same standards regardless of
  the time, culture, or experience.
• - No matter how dark the darkness gets lets all
  be Gods servants (Habakkuk 317-18).

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