Overcoming Complacency (09.08.24 – Mt. 24:3-35)

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Dear St. Paul family,
 

Sermon - Overcoming Complacency

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The gospel is from Mt. 24:3-35, about watching and praying for the end of times.

We saw that complacency is a state of stagnation and not wanting to grow. We also saw the signs and the dangers of complacency. This is how we can overcome complacency:

Let us not be shaken in :
 

1. Renew Your Vision

   • Without a vision, people perish (Prov. 29:18)

   • We need to have a clear vision of where we want to go and be. Sit in the possibility of ________, and see what system will get you there.

   • Write it down, be clear and look forward

2. Renew Your Passion

   • Rev. 2 says we lost our first love and to get it back we need to “do the first works”

   • In other words, “You lost that loving Feelin”

   • You lost it because you stopped doing loving things

   • As the song says, “Bring it on back”, go back and do those loving things with God and with others

3. Renew Your Progress

   • Be diligent as 2 Pet. 1 says and add to your virtues and as Paul says in Phil 3, reach forward, go for the upward prize

   • Keep pressing forward, don’t stop growing and learning

   • Complacency is the enemy of progress. We must keep pressing forward.

Never stop growing so to overcome complacency, renew your vision, make it clear, write it down and run, then renew your passion and do the loving things, bring it on back and finally, renew your progress, keep pressing forward, don’t stop learning and growing.

Fr. James

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