How do we have a vision for what lies ahead when we’ve experienced so much disruption in 2020?

> Focus on Christ, not on crisis
• Crisis will pass // Christ is forever
• Crisis demands our immediate attention // Christ calls us to be still and know that He is God
• Crisis drains our energy and hope // Christ is the fuel for life

Philippians 3:13-14 (NIV) ¹³Brothers and sisters, 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, ¹⁴I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.

Isaiah 26:3 (ESV) You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you.

> Be prepared to ‘start over’
• Change starts with our mindset.
• Change requires more than clichés - it requires conviction!

> Anchor yourself to those things that must never change

Ephesians 4:11-14 (NIV)
¹¹So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers, ¹²to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up ^13,until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ. ¹⁴Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of people in their deceitful scheming.

• Anchor yourself in His Body
• Anchor yourself in His Word