We have 7 days until our Fellowship will gather and make individual commitments that once totaled will allow for us to Expand our Faith, our Influence and our Fellowship. Yesterday I shared a message on Expanding our Giving. Each person who attends CSF will need to spend this week in prayer...asking God what they can and should do.

As a reminder, we are asking everyone to have an Expand Family Gathering. We provided a guideline for you yesterday. Your kids and teens are excited to sit with you. If you are single you can have this time alone or better yet, get with some CSF friends and have a group time.

If you missed yesterday....you should go to Expandcsf.com and print out the Family Gathering guideline. Also, go quickly to charlottesouth.com and listen to yesterdays message on giving. Doing all this will allow you to get ready for the decision God would have you make. Here is today's Expand Devotion.


With All Your Mind

Greed is Good. What motto is on your t-shirt? What priorities do you conform to? What do you give yourself to as a kind of living sacrifice? Anything that is advertised to make us the greatest, the most successful, the most fabulous, can capture us and conform us to its own set of values.

A magazine once ran a series of articles asking people, “What was it that changed your mind about something significant?” Some answered by telling how a relationship changed their racial prejudices, or how some tragedy or suffering made them more aware and compassionate. Changing our mind is a difficult and rare thing—especially if this transformation means changing our directions, opinions, goals, and plans. But such change is exactly what Paul calls us to be—completely transformed by the renewing of our mind.

How has your life in faith changed your mind? How have your priorities changed? How has your life changed? Could anyone notice the difference in you as you offer yourself to God and you are molded in the mind of Christ?

Bible Verse

Offer yourselves as a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what the will of God is. Romans 12:1-2

PRAYER

Lord, lead me to see things differently, to think differently, to live differently. Reset my priorities. Transform my mind and my life!