"Break out" sermon series

Week 2 - Listen
1 Samuel 3:1-20
Theme is Identity, self-aware and God-aware

1. RESOLVE to SEEK GOD - How?
   
2. MOTIVATION - over the holidays I watched 3 Rocky movies.
   
3. God gave you two ears, one mouth. LISTEN.
   
   1. Rocky says to Adonis Creed, “You can't learn when you're talking. The more you talk the less you listen.”
      
4. AWARENESS - How do you seek God? Awareness of identity
   
   1. Self - Identity
      
      1. False Self - survival and reaction, dependent on others/external influences
         
      2. True Authentic Self - who you are in Christ, God’s creation
         
   2. Who God is? Character
      
      1. Unchanging
         
      2. Who are YOU IN CHRIST?
         
   3. Who you are? Strengths, gifts, demeanor, passions, VALUES
      
      1. Some things change
         
      2. Some things don’t
         
5. Know Thyself; be self-aware; play to your strengths
   
6. The INTERIOR life
   
   1. Silence
      
   2. Solitude
      
7. Average to Good, Good to Great; Eli vs. Samuel