A thought by Rick Warren from his book. God's Power to Change Your Life (Living with Purpose) (p. 34). Zondervan. Kindle Edition. (Click on the book title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.) Ok, I want to change so there is a part in this that I must do. Rick says, “We can’t just passively sit around doing nothing and expect to grow.” “We must carefully choose what we think about. Proverbs 4:23, in the Good News Translation, says, ‘Be careful how you think; your life is shaped by your thoughts.’ Someone once said, ‘You’re not what you think you are, but what you think, you are.’ That is, if you are going to change your life, you have to change your thought patterns. Change always begins with new thinking. “How does a person become a Christian? By repenting. Repentance is often a misunderstood term. I used to think of it as a man standing on a street corner with a sign that says, ‘Turn or burn!’ However, the Greek word for repentance is metanoia, and it means to
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