Text: Colossians 3:1-17
Truth: The life of a Christian has been changed from the inside out, making it possible for him or her to live a new kind of life here on earth.
Thrust: He or she can and must now live differently.
Thesis: Since the life of a Christian has been changed from the inside out, making it possible for him or her to live a new kind of life here on earth, he or she must now live differently.
Turning Point: Real change begins from the inside out.
Theme: Life Change
Topic: How to experience real life change
Title: Real Change
Tagline: Let change come in.
Thoughts:
- When a person is young, he or she is full of optimism.
- When a person gets older, he or she becomes full of pessimism.
- One sure sign of pessimism is when people say, “That’s just the way I am.”
- People give up on real change because they’ve tried but failed.
- Real change doesn’t happen by human effort.
- Real change begins from the inside out.
- Paul talks about the theology of real change in Colossians 3:1-17. According to Paul, the life of a Christian has been changed from the inside out, making it possible for him or her to live a new kind of life here on earth.
- If this has happened to you, you can and must now live differently.
- Real change begins from the inside out.
- It can happen to you now. Let change come in.