1. OUR MISSION: To guide those far from God into the new start found in Jesus Christ.

3. “Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith...” Hebrews 12:2 Chapter Two: “I Decided To Stop” Exodus 18 The decisions that we make today will determine the stories that we tell tomorrow How do we live a story worth telling? Chapter One: I Decided To Start (last week) Chapter Two:I Decided To Stop (this week) Chapter Three:I Decided To Stay (next week) Chapter Four:I Decided To Go “Direction, not intention, determines destination.”

4. “Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith...” Hebrews 12:2 Chapter Two: “I Decided To Stop” Exodus 18:17-23 17 Moses’ father-in-law replied, ‘What you are doing is not good. 18 You and these people who come to you will only wear yourselves out. The work is too heavy for you; you cannot handle it alone. 19 Listen now to me and I will give you some advice, and may God be with you. You must be the people’s representative before God and bring their disputes to him. 20 Teach them his decrees and instructions, and show them the way they are to live and how they are to behave. 21 But select capable men from all the people – men who fear God, trustworthy men who hate dishonest gain – and appoint them as officials over thousands, hundreds, fifties and tens. 22 Let them serve as judges for the people at all times, but let them bring every difficult case to you; the simple cases they can decide themselves. That will make your load lighter, because they will share it with you. 23 If you do this and God so commands, you will be able to stand the strain, and all these people will go home satisfied.’ Exodus 18

5. “Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith...” Hebrews 12:2 Chapter Two: “I Decided To Stop” Number One You don't know what you're missing unless you stop Exodus 18 You don't know what blessings are on the other side of “stopping” Number Two You don't know what it will cost you if you don't stop What could happen if you continue to... (you fill in the blank)

6. “Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith...” Hebrews 12:2 Chapter Two: “I Decided To Stop” Play the story forward Exodus 18 What does God want you to want in your life? What does God want you to stop? What decision to stop do you need to make today, in order to tell the right story tomorrow? What do you need to stop externally? What do you need to stop internally?

7. “Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith...” Hebrews 12:2 Chapter Two: “I Decided To Stop” Play the story forward Exodus 18 Hebrews 12:1-2a “Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus... the author and finisher of our faith”

9. OUR MISSION: To guide those far from God into the new start found in Jesus Christ.