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Key Point: Criticize by building something better John 10:10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life and have it to the full. Genesis 1:27-28 So God created man in his own image in the image of God he created him; And God blessed them. And God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth." Builder - creates new things and maintains them Consumer-takes, asking what's in it for you Destroyer - tears things down in anger Nehemiah 1:3-4, 2:17-18 hev said to me. hose who survived the exile and are back in the province are in great trouble and disgrace. The wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates have been burned with fire." 'You see the trouble we are in: Jerusalem lies in ruins, and its gates have been burned with fire. Come. let us rebuild the wall ot Jerusalem. and we will no longer be in disgrace" lalso told them about the gracious hand of my God on me and what the king had said to me. They replied, "Let us start rebuilding." So they began this good work. Building big things keeps you from being distracted by lesser things. Nehemiah 6:2-4 Sanballat and Geshem sent me this message: "Come, let us meet together in one of the villages on the plain of Ono." But they were scheming to harm me• sol sent messengers to them with this reply:" am carrying on a great project and cannot go down. Why should the work stop while I leave it and go down to you?" Four times they sent me the same message, and each time I gave them the same answer. You will rarely be criticized by someone doing more than you. Matthew 28:18-20 And lesus came and said to them. "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of he Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with vou alwavs, to the end of the age." "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiant v: who errs. who comes short again and again. because there is no effort without error and chartcamino hut wha daoc actuallv ctrive ta d tho doode wh knawe eraat enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victorv nor defeat"
- Theodore Roosevelt
Key Point: Criticize by building something better John 10:10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life and have it to the full. Genesis 1:27-28 So God created man in his own image in the image of God he created him; And God blessed them. And God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth." Builder - creates new things and maintains them Consumer-takes, asking what's in it for you Destroyer - tears things down in anger Nehemiah 1:3-4, 2:17-18 hev said to me. hose who survived the exile and are back in the province are in great trouble and disgrace. The wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates have been burned with fire." 'You see the trouble we are in: Jerusalem lies in ruins, and its gates have been burned with fire. Come. let us rebuild the wall ot Jerusalem. and we will no longer be in disgrace" lalso told them about the gracious hand of my God on me and what the king had said to me. They replied, "Let us start rebuilding." So they began this good work. Building big things keeps you from being distracted by lesser things. Nehemiah 6:2-4 Sanballat and Geshem sent me this message: "Come, let us meet together in one of the villages on the plain of Ono." But they were scheming to harm me• sol sent messengers to them with this reply:" am carrying on a great project and cannot go down. Why should the work stop while I leave it and go down to you?" Four times they sent me the same message, and each time I gave them the same answer. You will rarely be criticized by someone doing more than you. Matthew 28:18-20 And lesus came and said to them. "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of he Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with vou alwavs, to the end of the age." "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiant v: who errs. who comes short again and again. because there is no effort without error and chartcamino hut wha daoc actuallv ctrive ta d tho doode wh knawe eraat enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victorv nor defeat"
- Theodore Roosevelt