Where do you actually begin taking responsibility for your own life, when good resolutions run out so quickly? The sermon leads to the question Jesus put to his disciples after an exhausting day and the feeding of the crowd: but who do you say that I am (Luke 9). The story of two preachers who started out together and ended up in entirely different places shows that saying Jesus is Lord is not enough, a life has to confirm it. Listen if you are looking for the point that is genuinely worth starting from.
Where to Begin?
Responsible
Andy Stanley once said, “Your lack of responsibility will eventually become someone else’s responsibility.” In other words, if you don’t take responsibility for what has been entrusted to you, someone else will have to take that responsibility for you. A wise life is one in which we don’t shift the blame onto others but face challenges head-on; we don’t burden others with the need to hold our hands, but instead become a source of support for others ourselves.
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