One Focus

For those of you who know me well, I wholeheartedly believe that the Word should not stop with you but spread with you.  In other words, when you learn something in the Word you are to share what you learned to someone else.

Passion 2011 taught me so many things that I could write pages and pages about.  In fact, my closest friends have heard about every message I listened to in detail.  Knowing that I do not have enough time to type it all out, the Lord has called me to write about a specific thing I learned at Passion.

The message Beth Moore gave was about the Renewing of Your Mind, using Romans 12:2 as her foundational scripture.
"We think real change is impossible, but that is a lie!" Our minds are something that we can control, but we must renew our minds daily in the Word or our minds will think evil thoughts.  Our evil thoughts will then produce evil actions.  What was so encouraging was that she noted "we are fully capable of living victoriously"
To make a long story short, and what I want you to get out of this, is that there is hope for us.  If we take our evil thoughts and replace them with thoughts of the gospel, things will begin to change.  It is a daily process that will take awhile.  But if we take captive every thought we have and turn it towards Christ, we can defeat our strongholds (addictions).
What is most important for us is that we remove the distractions that our generation faces.  We face more distractions than any other generation has had to go through.  We must daily focus on ONE thing: Christ!

"If you are going to do what He has called you to do, you must FOCUS ON HIM"
"The greatest minds may not ever impact as much as they could because they didn't renew their mind.  Focus always on the ONE THING: CHRIST.  Its never been harder to do one thing, but we must"

If you are a follower of Christ, He has called you to fulfill His will in your life.  Whatever He has called you to do, is more than you can do.  So focus on Christ, cling to Him, and see Him use you in ways that you never could do on your own.

Passion 2011

Charlie Hall Leading 22,000 in worship. Praise God!

Words can't even describe what Passion did for my soul.  I have been constantly telling my friends all that I learned and am going to apply in my daily life.  I feel like there was so much I learned that I can chew on for the next year.  But I know that I must put something specific on this blog.

What really impacted me was the talk Francis Chan gave on the second night of the conference.  He spoke about living your life in a manner worthy of the gospel (Phil 1:27).  He went into great detail on what that looks like in each of our lives.  He illustrated the point by bringing out a balancing scale, and weighing the word of God with your life... They honestly should be balanced, because it is what the Word is calling us to do.  But if we reflect on our lifestyle there are so many things that do not align with the Bible that we do constantly.

So he challenged us: Does your life make sense with the word of God?  If I read this scripture about Hell, and you say you believe it, then why aren't you more urgent with your friends?  Do you believe the word when it says you are to love your enemies? Then why are you treating others so bad?


This has changed the way I read the Word in a dramatic way.  Each time I read a passage, I look at it in the lens of "Am I making sense with what I am reading right now?"  It has given me more opportunities to repent then I ever have before, and I am conciously trying to live my life for Him! In every aspect of my life!

I challenge you to do the same thing.  Read the word, not just for information, but expecting to change.  If you read about having the same attitude of Christ, being humble, then start living like it.  Too often we treat the Bible as our tool to condemn the world, when in reality the person that needs it the most is the one who is reading it first-hand.... you!  and me!


So I encourage you to read the Word of God in this manner.