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Getting Physically Fit for Life Rich Nathan January 6, 2013 Fit for Life Series 1 Timothy 4:7-8

I’d like to begin today by welcoming our Sawmill Campus as well as our Lane Ave. Campus and our East Campus. I’d also like to welcome our two campus initiatives in Circleville & Mansfield. We are glad to have you with us. Every year tens of millions of us make New Year’s resolutions in which we resolve to be thinner, less indebted, more in love with God and others, better and wiser than we have been in the past. So, this is the busiest time of year for purchasing health club memberships, and for buying self-help books which promise to tone your abs and melt away your flab. For Christians, it is also the time of year when many of us resolve to spend more time with God each day, to finally join the church, to finally get involved in a small group, or a ministry. Some of us, of course, don’t feel the need to make New Year’s resolutions. There is an old Calvin and Hobbs cartoon, Calvin and Hobbs Cartoon …Calvin says, “Resolutions? Me?? Just want are you implying? That I need to change? Well, buddy, as far as I’m concerned, I’m perfect the way I am!” Most of us probably have the self-awareness that we are not perfect the way we are and that we need to change. But we know from personal experience that most of our resolutions aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on. I’ve been a member of a health club for the last 30 years and I’ve discovered that health clubs are busy the first 2-3 weeks of January and they empty out by February 1st. The vast majority of people go a few times to the club and after it is just too hard and too inconvenient and they drop out. And the vast majority of people don’t follow through on getting their finances in order, and most Christians quit having a consistent Quiet Time with God after a few days or weeks. So this year we thought what if the Columbus Vineyard offered church-wide support to people to help you do what you would like to do, but probably won’t do on your own – lose weight, get in shape, change your spending habits, get a budget, develop a consistent Quiet Time, that is a consistent devotional life with God, join a small group. What if we came alongside each other to support the 1-2 or 3 changes that would really change our lives?

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That’s what this series, Fit For Life, is all about. Over the next five weeks my series is going to address five main areas of life that most of us want to get into shape, but can’t quite manage to change on our own. Today I will be talking about getting physically fit. Next week I will be speaking about getting spiritually fit. In two weeks the topic will be getting financially fit, and then getting emotionally fit, and then finally in the fifth week, we talk about getting relationally fit. I think this is a great series for you to invite a friend, or coworker, or family member to hear at church because the issues that we’re going to be dealing with are such common felt-needs. But, we’re not going to rely on sermons alone to help you and your friends or family get into shape in one of these areas. We’ve been planning all fall, and we have an incredible support system set up of follow up classes and groups. We have professional support here; we even have a phone app that I will be talking about in just a couple of minutes to support you with your desire to change. So, today as we launch this New Year, my first message is titled “Getting Physically Fit For Life.” New Science Magazine ran an article last month that said this: The largest ever study into the state of the world’s health has revealed that, for the first time, the number of years of healthy living lost as the result of people eating too much is greater than the number of years lost by people eating too little. This was according to the Global Burden of Disease report which was a massive research effort involving almost 500 scientists in 50 countries and is considered to be the most comprehensive studies of human health in the history of medicine, according to the British Medical Journal, Lancet. In other words, for the first time in human history being overweight has become more of a health problem globally than a lack of nutrition. Now, of course, around the globe under-nutrition is still a leading cause of disease and death. But over the last few years it has dropped to 8th place as a global health issue whereas eating too much has risen to 6th place globally. And while there are some of you here who could stand to gain a few pounds, and there are some who just need to maintain your current weight, there is no doubt that most Americans need to trim down. And when I talk about weight and trimming down, I want to at the front end add a few quick caveats. If you are a woman and have had multiple pregnancies, certainly multiple pregnancies will add weight. So can a lack of money. There are numerous studies that show that junk food and fast food is often more accessible in poorer neighborhoods than is healthy food. And certain medications that we’re on can affect our weight.

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And I will acknowledge at the front end of this talk that we don’t all have the same body types, or the same metabolism. We all know people who can wolf down an entire pizza and lose weight walking from the pizzeria to the car. And some of us can just drive by KFC and put on a couple of pounds breathing in the fried chicken smell. But having made all of these caveats, let’s be real here and admit that the vast majority of the weight problem for most people in the US is because of bad choices. We eat too much and we move too little. Let’s start with the: Right understanding We need to get a hold of the basic problem, if we’re going to solve it. And the most fundamental problem of weight gain in America and around the world is that we eat too much and we move too little. Researchers at Cornell University studied the famous cookbook, The Joy of Cooking, as it has evolved over the past 70 years. It is the one American cookbook that has been continuously in print since the 1930’s. And what they discovered is that over the last 70 years is that portion sizes have continually increased so that the calorie count now is 63% greater for the portion suggested in 2010 compared to the portion suggested in the 1930’s. After doing this extensive study of The Joy of Cooking recipes over the last 70 years, this Cornell researcher concluded saying: These recipes were once intended to serve nearly twice as many people as they do today, so don’t let a full portion get anywhere near your plate. We often talk about the problem of fast food and eating outside the home. But we don’t talk enough about how much we eat in our homes. I know people from the Netherlands, when they come to the US, are shocked by the size of portions that we serve here in American restaurants and in our homes. They are particularly shocked by the size of our dinner plates. If you compare your grandma’s dinner plate, to dinner plates sold today for newlywed couples, grandma’s dinner plate looks to us like a cake plate. Our dinner plates look like hubcaps. The secret for getting to a healthy weight is not as much of a secret. • • • • •

Move more Eat less Turn off the TV Skip sugary drinks and desserts Avoid strange diets

Let’s look at this for a moment. Move more. If there is one best weight loss mantra it is: exercise, exercise, exercise. Choose activities that you will do every day. © 2013 Rich Nathan | VineyardColumbus.org

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Eat less. You know, one reason, along with smoking like chimneys, that the French are so much thinner than Americans is that culturally French people never eat between meals. They don’t snack. Turn off the TV. How will that help you to lose weight? Well, for one thing, many of us snack while we sit and watch TV. But the other is there are so many ads on TV for junk food and we are absolutely influenced by those ads. Companies are not spending billions of dollars advertising food to us for nothing. The ads affect our behavior. Turn the TV off. Skip sugary drinks and desserts. Drinking sugared soda and fruit drinks and juice can add several hundred calories a day without you even realizing it. Nutritionists have said that for many people, just getting rid of the sugary drinks and not changing anything else will cause people to lose weight. Avoid strange diets. Almost every bizarre diet – just eat grapefruit, or never eat starch or sugar – may work in the short-term, but it almost never works in the long-term. So why is weight loss and getting in shape so imperative? For most of us here in the church and for most folks living in America whether you are an immigrant, or not, most immigrants over time take on American eating habits – why is getting physically in shape so important? Again, we’re beginning with the right understanding. We need to get a handle on the size of the problem. The size of the problem I mean that both literally and metaphorically. We have an enormous problem when it comes to obesity in America. As our waistlines have expanded in the US, the economic cost of that expansion has just gone through the roof. We, as a society, simply cannot financially afford the problem of obesity. Do you know that cars burn nearly a billion gallons more gasoline a year now than what they otherwise would, if Americans’ average weight was what it was in 1960? It simply costs more for us to transport ourselves around because we’re heavier. Obesity is associated with a host of medical conditions – heart disease, chronic pain, knee problems – obese people are absent from work more often than people of healthy weight. Obese men average six more sick days a year and obese women average 10 more days a year than average weight people.

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But the real costs to our country from our expanding waistlines is in medical costs. According to the best study on the subject: Americans spend $190 billion dollars in additional medical costs each year as the result of obesity. 20.6% of US healthcare costs are due to obesity. So we keep talking about the health crisis in America and rising medical costs. But the best study indicates that 20% of our overall healthcare bill is related to obesity. And it is not just the obese that pay. Non-obese people pay in the form of taxes to support Medicaid and Medicare. It is costing several thousand dollars a year per person to carry the additional weight of the eating and exercise habits that we’ve developed as Americans. And according to recent studies, obesity now costs Americans more in healthcare spending than smoking. It is public health enemy #1 when it comes to cost. But the right understanding does not simply deal with the issue of economic costs of obesity. For the Christian, a right understanding of this problem involves: The value of the body You may be sitting here wondering why are we talking about physical fitness and obesity at church. I get enough of this from the world. We come to church to hear about our spiritual lives. Why aren’t we talking about prayer, worship, or Bible Study? We will be talking about those things, by the way, next week. But if anyone thinks that talking about our weight or our bodies really is not an appropriate subject for a church sermon, then I would suggest that you have seriously misunderstood what the Bible teaches about the body. Many Christians have a defective and sub-biblical understanding of spirituality. There is a huge branch of Christian theology called Biblical Anthropology; in other words, a biblical understanding of what it means to be human. And without getting into all the technical debate concerning different understandings of biblical anthropology, it is clear to all of us that we human beings are not pure spirits like the angels. God gave us bodies. And God honors the human body in several ways. First of all, he created your body and he inhabits your body. The Apostle Paul says in 1 Corinthians 6:19-20: 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies. More than this, God came to earth in a body. God hallows, God honors bodily existence so much that when he came to earth, and he came in a body. Here is what we read in 1 Timothy 3:16:

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1 Timothy 3:16 Beyond all question, the mystery from which true godliness springs is great: He appeared in a body, was vindicated by the Spirit, was seen by angels, was preached among the nations, was believed on in the world, and was taken up in glory. And when we think about valuing the body, remember our eternal state will not be floating around in heaven as bodiless souls. The afterlife of the Christian is being given a new body and living on a new earth. So if you don’t like your body type now, good news! You are going to get the body of your dreams when you are resurrected from the dead. To be human is to be embodied, both now and in eternity. We are not going to live eternally as disembodied spirits. We are not like the angels. And we are not presently giant bobble heads where all we need is lots of information and woefully misunderstood and mistreated bodies. The body has a huge place in Christian discipleship. Listen to some of these verses: 1 Thessalonians 5:23 May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 2 Corinthians 7:1 Therefore, since we have these promises, dear friends, let us purify ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit, perfecting holiness out of reverence for God. 1 Corinthians 6:20 20you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies. And we honor God with our bodies not just by refraining from sexual sin which is often the first thing that American Christians today think of when we think of bodily sin. We honor God with our bodies by what we choose to eat, drink, and put into our bodies, and how we choose to move and exercise and increase our body’s health. Which leads to the next thing: In getting physically fit for life, we not only need the right understanding, but we also need the: Right motive There are lots of good reasons to get in shape. There are physical reasons. Physical reasons

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The Harvard School of Public Health listed some of the reasons to get regular exercise. Here are a few of the reasons to be physically active on a regular basis:

Being physically active: • Improves your chances of living longer and living healthier • Helps protect you from developing heart disease and stroke • Helps protect you from developing certain cancers including colon and breast cancer • Helps prevent Type 2 Diabetes • Helps prevent the insidious loss of bone knows as osteoporosis • Reduces the risk of falling and improves cognitive functions among older adults • Relieves symptoms of depression and anxiety and improves mood • Prevents weight gain, promotes weight loss • Improves sleep The best Christian book I’ve ever read on the subject of getting in shape physically is a book titled: Every Body Matters by Gary Thomas The book, which we have for sale in our bookstore for $8.00, is balanced and full of grace. It is wise and motivational. It is really biblical. Gary Thomas is one of my favorite spiritual writers. In this book, Every Body Matters, which is very, very readable, Gary Thomas parodies a section from Proverbs – Proverbs 24:30-34 says this: Proverbs 24:30-34 I went past the field of a sluggard, past the vineyard of someone who has no sense; thorns had come up everywhere, the ground was covered with weeds, and the stone wall was in ruins. I applied my heart to what I observed and learned a lesson from what I saw: A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest—and poverty will come on you like a thief and scarcity like an armed man. Here is Gary Thomas’ parody: I went past the body of a sluggard, Past the body of someone who has no sense. His cholesterol was killing him from within; his high blood pressure was a tinderbox waiting to explode. His breath was labored,

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And he could barely move without breaking into a sweat. He said he had not time to exercise or to prepare healthy meals, But he lost hours going to the doctor and much money by buying medicines to treat the symptoms rather than attack the disease. I applied my heart to what I observed and learned a lesson from what I saw: A little sleep, a little softness, a life of over-indulgence – And ill health will come on you like a thief and frailty like an armed man. Emotional reasons There are physical reasons to get in shape. There are emotional reasons to get in shape. In the book Every Body Matters, Gary Thomas talks about a woman named Karen, who had two little children of her own and then they adopted a third child from Ethiopia. She suddenly had three little kids to care for. She had put on weight from her pregnancies and just taking care of fussy babies and being tired. She found herself over the course of five years increasingly getting out of shape. Here’s what Karen said: I looked in the mirror and didn’t think I looked very attractive anymore, I didn’t feel noticed, I didn’t feel very beautiful with Curtis [her husband]. I was no longer his girlfriend; I was his frumpy wife and the mother of his kids. Its not that he made me feel that way; I felt it all on my own. And Karen said: The worse I felt, the worse I did with my devotions, the less initiating I was with my husband, and the less energetic I was around my kids. What snapped her out of all of this was when Karen started playing volleyball again. She once had been a really good athlete in high school and she found going to a gym, even though she was really rusty, and getting involved with some other women, being away from her kids – not thinking about dishes and groceries and runny noses – but physically engaging her body improved her overall outlook on life. And her physical movements also improved her self-image, lifted some of the shame she felt about herself, increased her energy for God and her family. Which leads to the key motive for getting in shape and that is the: Spiritual reasons The key motive for getting in shape is a spiritual motive. There are physical reasons to get eat less and move more. There are emotional reasons to do it. But for the Christian,

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the ultimate spiritual motive for anything is love – love for God and love for others. Getting in shape will improve your relationship with God and improve your relationship with other people. Let me quickly say that losing 10 pounds won’t make God love you any more than he does right now. Or adding 10 pounds won’t make God love you any less. But the proper motive, the ultimate motive for getting in shape, is love. Your love for God, not his love for you. Getting in shape can improve your relationship with God and your love for others –your family, your church, folks at your work. Getting in shape can improve your energy level; so you are more eager to serve others. Love is the motive. Here is what we read in 1 Timothy 4:7-8: 1 Timothy 4:7-8 Have nothing to do with godless myths and old wives’ tales; rather, train yourself to be godly. For physical training is of some value, but godliness has value for all things, holding promise for both the present life and the life to come. The word for “train yourself” in Greek is: Gymnaze It comes from the Greek word from which we get the word “gymnasium.” The Apostle Paul says train yourself in the gym like one of the Greek athletes of Paul’s day. But even more, train yourself in godliness, in doing what God wants you to do. Now, let me link up these thoughts for you. The ultimate reason to get in shape is to improve your relationship with God and to improve your relationship with other people. Now, what Paul is hinting at here in 1 Timothy 4 and definitely hints at in a number of other texts is that there is a link between what it takes to get in shape physically and our spiritual lives – that is, our relationship with God and with others. If you are a student of the New Testament, you must certainly have noticed that Paul uses athletic metaphors over and over again for the spiritual life. Back in the 1st century when Paul wrote, the Greeks held Olympic Games ever four years. The games included running, jumping, wrestling, boxing, horse racing. But not only did the Greeks participate in the Olympics every four years, they had a number of other games including the Isthmian Games which were held in the city of Corinth in Greece. So when Paul writes to the Corinthians, he borrows images from these Isthmian Games that were held in their town and here is what he writes: 1 Corinthians 9:24-27 Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize. Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not last; but we do it

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to get a crown that will last forever. Therefore I do not run like someone running aimlessly; I do not fight like a boxer beating the air. No, I strike a blow to my body and make it my slave so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified for the prize. What’s Paul saying in these verses? Paul is saying that there can be a carryover effect from getting in shape from engaging in physical activity that will impact your spiritual life. Verse 24: 1 Corinthians 9:24 Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize. He is saying that just as athletes engage in intense competition with a high and lofty objective, we Christians engage in activity for the ultimate prize – rewards from the Lord Jesus Christ. Verse 25: 1 Corinthians 9:25 Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not last; but we do it to get a crown that will last forever. Just as athletes need to learn delayed gratification, we Christians can learn from engaging in exercise, self-discipline, saying no to ourselves that will reap spiritual benefits eternally. Verse 26: 1 Corinthians 9:26 Therefore I do not run like someone running aimlessly; I do not fight like a boxer beating the air. Just as athletes have a purpose and aim in running and boxing, so we Christians have a spiritual goal of greater intimacy with God. Do you see, brothers and sisters, that the lessons you learn from getting in shape physically – training, handling a little bit of personal discomfort, pushing through opposition, saying no to our bodies and to our appetites, perseverance, effort, goalsetting – that those things just don’t work for you physically, they work for you spiritually. But to succeed in getting in shape, we need the: Right support Anyone who has ever tried to get back in shape knows that it’s really hard. There is lots of push back. As I often have said, there is another team on the field. You can be super motivated; OK, I want to drop 10 pounds, or 20 or more pounds. I’m going to start walking again. I’m going to go back to the gym. I’m going to exercise. I’m going to get

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back into swimming. But there is another team on the field. You have an enemy of your soul that wants to make you ineffective in life. Let me quote again from Gary Thomas’ book: Satan may attempt to ruin one man’s ministry by luring him into a financial trap that will ultimately become a crime and, thus, wreck his business and his reputation; he may attempt to ruin a woman by gradually filling her mind with thoughts of fantasy toward a coworker and thoughts of malice towards her husband so that she is weakened and enters into an immoral affair. And he may get others to eat one too many bacon cheeseburgers without any corresponding exercise, and take them out of the way. He doesn’t care what brings our ministry to an end; he just wants it to end. If Satan can’t keep you from getting saved, he wants to make sure you are useless as a Christian. And one way is by attacking your body so that you are not physically able to do what God may be calling you to do. What if it is God’s will that you live and serve him vigorously until age 90 or beyond? What if it is God’s will that you live and be available to love and serve not only your kids, but your grandkids and great-grandkids? Bad stewardship of your body and decades of bad choices regarding eating too much and moving too little render you unable to vigorously serve God well into old age, or vigorously serve your family, your friends, the church, or the world well into old age. The fact is, friends, that almost none of us can make significant changes on our own. We need the right support to change patterns in our lives. We human beings are social beings. There was only one thing that wasn’t good in the Garden of Eden and that was it wasn’t good for man to be alone. We need other people. We need support to make the right decisions. I saw a wonderful story on the PBS News Hour this past week. There is a manufacturing firm in New England that because of some financial problems in the 1980’s could no longer afford full time workers and had to hire part-time workers. Well, the only parttime workers they could find were retirees, people in their late 60’s, 70’s, 80’s and 90’s. They hired these retirees and they found that these older people who worked flex time hours, part-time, had great work ethics. And this manufacturing firm has had great profits for the last two decades. They interviewed this woman who was 100 years old who still goes to work at this firm every day. She said, “I thank God that I can be productive and that I get to be among people every day.” One man, who was in his 80’s had tears in his eyes and said, “If it wasn’t for this place, I would be dead. I would be sitting home alone. I’ve buried all my friends. Being around other people has kept me sharp and alive.” Everything we know about changing behavior involves getting people the right social support for change. Almost no one changes on their own. And we don’t change

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behaviors just because we have the right information. Human beings change by being involved with other folks, friends and family members, who support the changes we want to make. Do you know the greatest prediction of whether you will be overweight or the right weight is your family and your five closest friends and their weight? That’s why it is so hard to lose weight, if everyone else around you has bad eating habits. And that’s why it is much easier to lose weight, if your coworkers or friends or family all agree to do it together. Now, one way we’re going to support you in getting in shape is we want to start several dozen Growth Groups here at Vineyard. A growth group is a short term group, maybe 8 weeks or 10 weeks, that is focused on reading a book together and then implementing what’s in the book. Fit For Life Growth Group So to change, we need the right understanding, the right motive, the right support, and finally the: Right plan The Atlantic Magazine recently did a cover story of how to break bad habits in your life. The author talked about his younger brother, Dan, who gradually put on weight over the course of a decade and weighed in at over 230 pounds which wouldn’t have been a problem if he was 6’6”. But his brother, Dan, was 5’6”. And at the age of 50 he was 45 pounds over the medical threshold for obesity. His brother, Dan, was on a regime of drugs aimed at lowering his risk of dying at an early age. He found it harder and harder to move. His legs started to hurt him. In fact, after ten minutes of walking around in a museum, Dan’s legs hurt so much that he actually had to get into a wheelchair at age 50 so that he could continue to see the museum. But then Dan engaged in a diet and exercise plan; he counted calories, began walking. No strange diets, no extreme exercise, no surgery, no medications. He dropped 65 pounds and has kept it off for years. How did he do it? He basically followed a plan of eating right, moving more, and having tons of social support that we want to implement on a church-wide basis here at Vineyard Columbus. Let me tell you what our plan is. 1. We got a Lose It! App and website to help us as a church to get more physically fit in the New Year. You can track your meals and exercise on this app. I’ve got it on my phone. You can track your weight and exercise goals. Join groups and interact with others. All of the information is totally private. You can sign up at:

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vineyardcolumbus.loseit.com And even if you are already part of Lose It! you can sign in through Vineyardcolumbus.loseit.com to join our group. I want to challenge you that if you need to lose weight to aim at losing 8 pounds in the next 8 weeks. I’ve got a personal goal. I want to lose 12 pounds in the next 8 weeks. Most of the staff at Vineyard Columbus have signed up for the Lose It! program. We’re going to look amazing! But if we as a church engaged in this, imagine we could collectively lose 10-20,000 pounds in the next 8 weeks. The second thing we’re doing is: 2. Let’s Get Started – Putting Together a Personal Health Care Plan We’ll be offering classes this next week on Tuesday evening and Thursday evening, January 8th and 10th from 7:00-8:00 p.m. and next Sunday, January 13th at 1:15-2:15 p.m. Which is putting together a personal health plan through our Community Center. You only need to attend one of these classes which will allow you to get a holistically health care plan for your life to create your own diet and exercise program and learn how to use the Lose It! App. 3. New Year Fresh Start Let’s Get Back To Basics - Nutrition 101 Thursday, January 17th from 7:00-8:00 p.m. and Thursday, January 24th from 7:008:00 p.m. We are offering a 2—week class, which will help you to design meals for yourself and your family. 4. Vineyard Community Center has several dozen sports and fitness programs: • Personal Training • Zumba classes • Dance classes • Aerobics • Kick-boxing • Programs for kids Of course, we have Support and Recovery Groups. 5. Support and Recovery Groups • Beautiful Inside and Out - for young women, 20-somethings, struggling with Body Image beginning on January 9th

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• Hungry – for all women who want to be more dependent upon God and less given to compulsive and emotional eating beginning on January 10th. Finally, we have: 6. Growth Groups All of these things that I’ve just mentioned are found in bags that you can pick up on your way out at our campuses and at our main campus. Let’s do this together, church! Let’s in this New Year together make the changes that God wants us to make in our lives – physically, spiritually, emotionally, financially, and relationally. Let’s get back in shape and let’s support one another in doing this. Amen.

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Getting Physically Fit for Life Rich Nathan January 5-6, 2013 Fit for Life Series 1 Timothy 4.7-8

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The right understanding A. The size of the problem B. The value of the body

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The right motive A. Physical reasons B. Emotional reasons C. Spiritual reasons The right support

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The right plan

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