Change and Continuity

*New Year with the NONO Family

Everything continues in a state of rest unless it is compelled to change

by forces impressed upon it. ~Isaac Newton

There are forces that are driving change in the world.

Change in the World

*Story of Analog to Digital: Dad and His Job

Did you know v.4

Zuckerburg Generation and the Wikileaks Society

Seven hundred billion minutes. That’s how much time Facebook’s 500 million active
users spend on the site every month. 700,000,000,000 minutes. Let that one sink in for a
moment. Every month we spend the equivalent of 1.3 million years on Facebook; the
equivalent of nearly 18,000 lifetimes. More than half of us login every single day; we
average 130 friends. And we spend vast amounts of time on there.

The Shallows!

7 billion people

*Story of the Zapote Girl

Change in the Nation

*Peso Bill

Change in the Self

Change AD

There are three kinds of people:

1. Reject Change
2. Tolerant of Change
3. Embrace Change

*Story of the World in Dubai

Change delivers movement. Without movement we die.

You can never step into the same river twice. ~Hereclitus

He who rejects change is the architect of decay.  The only human institution
which rejects progress is the cemetery.  ~Harold Wilson

Change is inevitable.

The only constant thing is change.

Why are People Resistant to Change?

1. THE RISK OF CHANGE IS SEEN AS GREATER THAN THE RISK OF STANDING
STILL

2. PEOPLE ANTICIPATE A LOSS OF STATUS OR QUALITY OF LIFE

When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to

change ourselves.  ~Victor Frankl

3. PEOPLE FEEL INADEQUATE to STEP UP TO THE CHALLENGES OF CHANGE

If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way
you think about it.  ~Mary Engelbreit

THERE CAN NEVER BE GROWTH WITHOUT CHANGE

Going about CHANGE
1. Plan

Proverbs 6:6–7, "Go to the ant, O sluggard; consider her ways and be wise.
Without having any chief, officer, or ruler, she prepares her food in
summer, and gathers her sustenance in harvest."

The ant is an example not only because it works so hard, but also because it
plans ahead. It takes thought in summer that there will be need in winter,
and this forethought provides its needs in winter.

Proverbs 14:15, "The simple believes everything, but the prudent looks
where he is going."

The difference between planning and not planning is whether you look
where you are going in the future or whether you focus all your attention
on the immediate right in front of you. If you are not a planner, then you
will be at the mercy of others who try to give you counsel about how to act
now so as to be happy in the future.

So "the simple believes everything, but the prudent looks where he is

going." He considers the days to come and what they are bringing and
thinks about how best to prepare for them and use them to accomplish his
purposes.

*Talk about switch

Only God can change the desires of our hearts…

2. Prepare

Preparation makes you excellent in your work…

PhilStar article on MMFF system

3. Pursue
 Philippians 3:13 - Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold
of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward
what is ahead,

How Does Change Come About?

2 Corinthians 5:17 (New International Version,
©2010)

 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has

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come:  The old has gone, the new is here!

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Sanctification
The 10,000 Little Moments
You see, the character of a life is not set in two or three dramatic moments, but in
10,000 little moments. The character that was formed in those little moments is
what shapes how you respond to the big moments of life.
What leads to significant personal change?

 10,000 moments of personal insight and conviction

 10,000 moments of humble submission
 10,000 moments of foolishness exposed and wisdom gained
 10,000 moments of sin confessed and sin forsaken
 10,000 moments of courageous faith
 10,000 choice points of obedience
 10,000 times of forsaking the kingdom of self and running toward the
kingdom of God
 10,000 moments where we abandon worship of the creation and give
ourselves to worship of the Creator.
And what makes all of this possible? Relentless, transforming, little-moment
grace. You see, Jesus is Emmanuel not just because he came to earth, but because
he makes you the place where he dwells. This means he is present and active in
all the mundane moments of your daily life.
Continuity and Change
*Talk about Thanksgiving
Continuity gives us roots; change gives us branches, letting us stretch and grow
and reach new heights.  ~Pauline R. Kezer

The 2nd generation must be the voice of the 1st generation to the 3rd

If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by
what you are.  For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. 
Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing.  ~Saint Augustine

NEW PROBLEMS WILL REQUIRE CREATIVITY

NEW PRESSURES WILL COME THAT WILL REQUIRE CONVICTION

NEW POSSIBILITIES THAT WILL REQUIRE COURAGE

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