Centered | Part 1: Who’s At The Center?

When Jesus Is at the Center —
Everything Else Finds Its Place

CENTERING TRUTH #1
Our Center Isn’t Chosen — It’s Chosen

Choosing our center — is choosing our life.

Deuteronomy 30:19 (NLT)
“Today I have given you the choice between life and death, between blessings and curses … Oh, that you would choose life, so that you and your descendants might live!”

Joshua 24:15 (NLT)
“Choose today whom you will serve … but as for me and my family, we will serve the LORD.”

Matthew 6:24 (NLT)
“No one can serve two masters. For you will hate one and love the other; you will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.”

CENTERING TRUTH #2
Whatever Is at the Center —
Us in and Us Together

Colossians 1:17 (NIV)
He (Christ) is before all things, and in him all things hold together.

CENTERING TRUTH #3
Live Christ — Not Just Christ

Colossians 1:29 (MSG)
I’m doing my best with the energy God so generously gives me.

Colossians 2:6 (NIV)
Just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in him,

Practice #1: Start the day with Jesus.

Practice #2: Stay Jesus- throughout the day.

Practice #3: Stay rooted in not just emotion.

Practice #4: Stay faith- connected.

Colossians 3:16
Let the message of Christ dwell among you richly as you teach and encourage one another …

CENTERING QUESTION #1
What Am I Choosing to Put
at the Center of My Life Right Now?

CENTERING QUESTION #2
Is What’s at My Center Strong Enough
to Hold Me Together When Life Gets Hard?

CENTERING QUESTION #3
Am I Trying to Live For Jesus
in My Own Strength — or Learning to Live From Him?

When Jesus Is at the Center — Everything Else Finds Its Place