Week One - Closing

Thank you for joining us for the study of Lord Change my Attitude. It's not too late to ask your friends and family to join us.

This study is about the attitudes that affect our growth in Christ and, boy, were our toes stepped on this week?! I hope that each of us takes this study very seriously and works to apply the truths learned and also to change our attitudes. With that said, let me ask you each some questions to cause you to think.

Question One: Are you open to considering what the Lord has to say about changing your attitude?
This is not a self-help book. This is a study on what God has to say about our attitudes.

Question Two: Are you willing to be changed?
If change was easy, everyone would be doing it; but the fact is most people are just staying the same.

Question Three: Are you willing to change your attitude?
This study is about attitudes. It's not about our actions or circumstances.

Question Four: Are you willing to focus exclusively on YOUR attitude?
It is so easy to point out someone else's bad attitude and never even see that we also have a bad attitude.

This week's lesson about a complaining attitude really hit home with me. I've never really considered myself a complainer, or least I always thought I had a reason to complain, if I did. Well, now I see that God doesn't like complaining, no matter what the reason. When we complain we are basically telling God that He is not giving us what we want, when we want it, and we want Him to cater to us. This lesson was a wake-up call to me. Complaining and a negative attitude toward people and things around us is SIN and God HATES sin!

Changing something that is a habit that we have had for years is not easy. Attitudes are patterns of thinking formed over a long period of time. You can't change your attitudes in a few minutes. Hopefully, this study will help us identify the attitudes we need to change and give us the tools we need to being that change process. I pray that God will use this study and that we will give our attitudes to God to allow Him to change us to be more like Him.