An Effective Walk!

C.L.E.A.N in 2013!Working on a walk that is:

1.Closer: An intimate, image free walk that is characterized by integrity.

2.Loving: An attitude of love and forgiveness toward myself and others.

C.L.E.A.N in 2013!3. Effective: A walk that gets the

desired results.

4. Active: A walk filled with growth and consistent victories.

5. Notable: A walk that reaches beyond my family to the community, even impacting strangers.

An Effective Walk, pt. 3An Effective Walk, pt. 3The Solution for Short! 2 Corinthians 10:3-5The Solution for Short! 2 Corinthians 10:3-5

The Solution for Short!

Message Thesis: Growth is expected in the

life of believers.

Message objective: To understand what it

takes to develop a mature and effective

walk.

Effective:

Producing a decided, decisive, or desired

effect or result. An effective walk is a walk

that gets the desired results. It also means

to mature, to grow, and move forward in our

walk with God.

Maturity:

Maturity is the quality or state of being

mature. It means full development. To

become fully developed.

Full-Complete in detail. Having all

distinguishing characteristics.

We begin to mature in 3 ways:

1. How we think. (convictions)2. How we feel. (character)3. How we act. (conduct)

Ephesians 2:1-31 And you hath he quickened, who were dead in

trespasses and sins; 2 Wherein in time past ye

walked according to the course of this world,

according to the prince of the power of the air

the spirit that now worketh in the children of

disobedience: 3 Among whom also we all had

our conversation in times past in the lusts of our

flesh, fulfilling the desiresa of the flesh and of the

mind; and were by nature the children of wrath,

even as others.

Ephesians 2:4-7• 4 But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love

wherewith he loved us, 5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) 6 And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: 7 That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.

Points To Consider:What We Were:• A. Dead in sin (2:1)• B.     Influenced by Satan (2:2)• C.     Controlled by lust (2:3a)• D.     Under God’s wrath (2:3b)• E.     Pagans without God (2:11)• F.     Separated from Christ (2:12a)• G.     Without hope in this present world (2:12b)

Points To Consider:

What We Are:• A. Loved (2:4)• B.     Quickened (2:1,5)• C.     Raised (2:6)

How We Now Act & Function:• A different walk! Ephesians (2:10)