1. Insecurity & Jealousy Love & Acceptance He made us accepted in the Beloved Eph 1:6

2. Jealous of others success Committed to success of others So encourage each other and build each other up1 Thess 5:11 Phil 2:4

3. Serves God to earn love Serves God from divine acceptance & favour For by grace you have been saved, through faith…it is the gift of God. Eph 2:8-9

4. Driven by the need for success Spirit led into calling & mission Trust in the Lord with all your heart, lean not on your own understanding…… Prov 3:5-6 Prov 16:9

5. Uses people to fulfil goals Serves people to bless the Kingdom For you, have been called to liberty… through love serve one another Gal 5:13

6. Anger & rage in order to control Rests in Father’s ability to guide the future My times are in Your hands Ps 31:15 Matt 6:25

7. Always in competition Always blessing Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself. Phil 2:3

8. Lacks self- esteem Walks in love & acceptance Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us that we should be called children of God! 1 John 1:3

9. Identity = possessions, appearance & activities Grounded in sonship & Father’s affirmation Psalm 34:10, Psalm 147:10-11, 1 Sam 16:7, 1 Pet 3:3-4

10. Even before He made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault before His eyes. God decided in advance to adopt us into His own family by bringing us to Himself through Jesus Christ. This is what He wanted to do, and it gave Him great pleasure Eph 1:4-5

11. Good = Kalos Beautiful, excellent in it’s nature & characteristics, morally good, noble, honourable Works = Ergon That which one undertakes to do, enterprise, any product whatever, an act, deed, a thing done.