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Surrender: Why We All Need Step One

As we start this new year, many of you are thinking about resolutions and goals. Maybe last year you resolved to lose 10 pounds and now you’re thinking, “Great, only 18 to go.” Whatever is on your mind today, I hope you’ll join us for this new series on the 12 Steps.

Why the 12 Steps?

Some of you might be wondering why we’re going through the 12 steps from Alcoholics Anonymous and similar recovery programs. “I’m not an addict,” you’re thinking. “Why do I need this?”

Here’s the truth: more of us are addicted to things than we realize. Almost everyone has something in their life they do without thinking that affects them negatively. Something you want to stop but just can’t.

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The Missing Piece

I’m going to lose ten pounds.
I’m going to run a 10k.
I’m going to work to earn a promotion.
I’m going to go back to school for a higher degree.
I’m going to quit drinking / smoking / overeating.
I’m going to work out 3 days a week.

Sound familiar?

There’s a story I came across while researching for a new sermon series beginning this January. Three frogs were sitting on a log on the shore of the lake one hot summer day. One frog decides to jump in the lake. How many frogs are on the log?

Three. Deciding and doing are not the same thing.

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