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Course Corrections For Life

Pastor Mike Hendon


• In life one of the first things we learn is
NAVIGATION.
• Webster defines this as the method of
determining position, course, and distance
traveled.
• It comes from the Latin word: navigare, from
navis ship + -igare (from agere to drive)
• Think about it in its’ most elementary form and
how it changes into a very complex form
• The point is you spend a great deal of your life
navigating—like a ship– through various
experiences, obstacles, and courses to get to a
certain destination.
• So those three words are very important to
you in the journey:
• POSITION
• COURSE
• DISTANCE TRAVELLED
• Relative to those three words are three key
questions:
• 1. Where are you?
• 2. How did you get here?
• 3. Where do you go from here?
• And they heard the sound of the LORD God
walking in the garden in the cool of the day,
and Adam and his wife hid themselves from
the presence of the LORD God among the
trees of the garden.
Then the LORD God called to Adam and said
to him, “Where are you?” Gen. 3:8-9
• A poignant question for all of us tonight….
• It is a question of position and it is in terms of
RELATIONSHIP
• We all know where we are geographically and
logistically in life but ignore the most
important position of all and that is
relationally.
• Three relationships: Lk. 10:27
• God

• Self Others
• Knowing God, understanding God must be
done in the context of relationship.
• God is revealed as a FATHER and His primary
relationship is with His Son Jesus.
• ALL of what exists and who God is and what
God does is an outgrowth of His relationship
to Jesus as a Father. This relationship existed
before the foundation of the world.
• God is committed to relationships.
• “and have loved them as You have loved Me.”
Jn17:23
• God not only loves Jesus but us as well
• 20 “I do not pray for these alone, but also for
those who will[e] believe in Me through their
word; 21 that they all may be one, as You, Father,
are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one
in Us, that the world may believe that You sent
Me.
• 22
And the glory which You gave Me I have given
them, that they may be one just as We are one: 23
I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made
perfect in one, and that the world may know that
You have sent Me, and have loved them as You
have loved Me
• The goal is fellowship—1 Jn.1:13. Any ministry
that does not have as its goal fellowship and is
committed to relationship is false and outside the
scope of God’s will.

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