Part Two:
Renewing Your Mind
Ephesians 4:23
Session 6
Getting in Touch
with Reality
Knowledge Objectives
Recognize why, without God, it is
impossible to understand the world
and your place in it.
Understand the dynamics of building a
relationship with God Himself.
Application Objectives
Respond by recognizing the desire for
God that He has placed within you if
you are His child.
Respond by seeking God wholeheartedly and personally.
Respond by spending time interacting
with God to develop that relationship.
Session 6
Getting in Touch
with Reality
An Alien in Times Square
More Than Relief from
Problems
Christianity is primarily a
relationship with the Creator.
God created man to be most
satisfied, most joyful, and most
useful when there is a personal
relationship with his Creator.
More Than Being on
Speaking Terms
There must be much going on
between my soul and the Savior.
We Must Have a Desire
for God
God has created in man the desire
for Himself.
David Brainerd
“Of late God has been pleased to keep
my soul hungry almost continually, so
that I have been filled with a kind of
pleasing pain. When I really enjoy God,
I feel my desires of Him the more
insatiable and my thirstings after
holiness more unquenchable.”
St. Augustine
“Thou madest us for Thyself,
and our heart is restless, until it
repose [finds its rest] in Thee.”
Psalm 42:1-2
“As the hart [deer] panteth after the
water brooks, so panteth my soul after
thee, O God. My soul thirsteth for
God, for the living God.”
Psalm 63:1
“O God, thou art my God; early will I
seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee,
my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and
thirsty land, where no water is.”
Psalm 73:25-26
“Whom have I in heaven but thee? And
there is none upon earth that I desire
beside thee. My flesh and my heart
faileth: but God is the strength of my
heart, and my portion for ever.”
Psalm 84:2
“My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth
for the courts of the Lord: my heart
and my flesh crieth out for the living
God.”
We Must Have a Desire
for God
God has created in man the desire
for Himself.
God is glorified when man takes
his place of joyful, grateful
dependence.
Solving problems without God is
both arrogant and ineffective.
We Must Seek God
It must be a passionate search.
It must be a search for a person.
 A Conversation with Coach
Living in the Real World
Requires that a man know the
God who has revealed Himself to
us.
Renewing the mind starts right
here—with God.
“Boy and a Bike” Segment
Producer/Director/Editor
Chris Davies
Production Crew
Cynthia Connor
Dante Dreher
Kylee May
Hair/Make-up
Tanya McKisic
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