LET THE BLAMES BEGIN!
The Responsibles (1 of 3)
January 25 & 26, 2025
John Reed
Q: Am I
Irresponsibility:
Response-Ability:
My ability to
One person’s
Genesis 1:26-28
Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”
27 So God created mankind in his own image,
in the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them.
28 God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”
Principle #1: You were
Corollary:
You are
Genesis 3:8-13
Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden. 9 But the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?”
10 He answered, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.”
11 And he said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”
12 The man said, “The woman you put here with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”
13 Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?”
The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
We cannot
“Until a person can say deeply and honestly, “I am what I am today because of choices I made yesterday,” that person cannot say, “I choose otherwise.”
— Stephen Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Principle #2: Irresponsibility always creates
THIS WEEK:
BONUS: Ask, “If I were
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