UNSELFIE PART 2 (2 OF 3)
by Craig Smith
Scripture: Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
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Unselfie Part 2 (2 of 3)
Series: Unselfie
Craig Smith
Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
I. Introduction: Welcome to week #2 of our Unselfie series. Last week we laid the foundation for this series by looking at what Jesus says in John 15:12: ''Love each other as I have loved you.'' And we saw that the kind of love Jesus is talking about here is a selfless love, a sacrificial love. And we said if you could take a picture that somehow captured the essence of this life that Jesus demonstrated for us and invites us to join him in, we would have to call that picture an Unselfie: taking the self out of the frame in order to put the focus on others.
What we're going to be doing today and for the next couple of weeks is asking what that looks like for three main kinds of resources God entrusts to us: time, talent and treasure. Today we're talking about time.
Now, I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that most of us probably feel like time is something we don't have enough of. Am I right? There are always exceptions. Some of you here today feel like you have more time than you know what to do with...and if that's you, then I only have one thing to say to you: find a way to use some of that time to love others and Jesus has loved you. That's it.
B most of us probably can't relate to having too much time. Most of us will naturally feel like we don't have enough time. And not just time...for most of us, we'll have the same feeling about all of the resources God has entrusted to us. We feel like we don't have enough time, enough talent, enough treasure.
And the first thing I want to do today is to address that feeling because I honestly believe that that feeling is one of the greatest obstacles to using our resources as God intended. See, when we feel like we don't have enough of something, what we naturally tend to do two things: #1 , we hoard it and #2, we start wishing we had more of it. And neither one of those will help us use our resources as God intended. ...
Series: Unselfie
Craig Smith
Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
I. Introduction: Welcome to week #2 of our Unselfie series. Last week we laid the foundation for this series by looking at what Jesus says in John 15:12: ''Love each other as I have loved you.'' And we saw that the kind of love Jesus is talking about here is a selfless love, a sacrificial love. And we said if you could take a picture that somehow captured the essence of this life that Jesus demonstrated for us and invites us to join him in, we would have to call that picture an Unselfie: taking the self out of the frame in order to put the focus on others.
What we're going to be doing today and for the next couple of weeks is asking what that looks like for three main kinds of resources God entrusts to us: time, talent and treasure. Today we're talking about time.
Now, I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that most of us probably feel like time is something we don't have enough of. Am I right? There are always exceptions. Some of you here today feel like you have more time than you know what to do with...and if that's you, then I only have one thing to say to you: find a way to use some of that time to love others and Jesus has loved you. That's it.
B most of us probably can't relate to having too much time. Most of us will naturally feel like we don't have enough time. And not just time...for most of us, we'll have the same feeling about all of the resources God has entrusted to us. We feel like we don't have enough time, enough talent, enough treasure.
And the first thing I want to do today is to address that feeling because I honestly believe that that feeling is one of the greatest obstacles to using our resources as God intended. See, when we feel like we don't have enough of something, what we naturally tend to do two things: #1 , we hoard it and #2, we start wishing we had more of it. And neither one of those will help us use our resources as God intended. ...
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