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Changing Minds Changing Lives

Changing Minds Changing Lives. Family Worship Center Pastor Mark Schwarzbauer, Ph.D. Acts 17:22-31. Part One: The Location For Change. Proverbs 23:7. For as he thinks in his heart so is he. The Human Brain. Brain Functions.

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Changing Minds Changing Lives

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  1. Changing Minds Changing Lives Family Worship Center Pastor Mark Schwarzbauer, Ph.D.

  2. Acts 17:22-31

  3. Part One:The Location For Change

  4. Proverbs 23:7 For as he thinks in his heart so is he.

  5. The Human Brain

  6. Brain Functions

  7. The Reticular Activating System RAS from the Reticular Formation

  8. The brain- Mystery of matter and mind, US News Books, 1981. "Gatekeeper to consciousness, spark of the mind, the reticular formation connects with major nerves in the spinal column and brain. It sorts the 100 million impulses that assault the brain each second, deflecting the trivial, letting the vital through to alert the mind. The mind cannot function without this catalytic bundle of cells. Damage to them results in coma - the loss of consciousness."

  9. So here is Bruner's “inhibitory system,” the centralized, indefatigable, quintessential sentinel and manager of the brain, the Reticular Activating System (or what theologians should recognize as the “heart”), as it says in the illustration above, “deflecting the trivial, letting the vital through to alert the mind.”LeDoux, Joseph, Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are Penguin Books 2003

  10. …the RAS will only allow you to perceive accurately those things that satisfy ALL THREE criteria: 1. “Is it my responsibility?” 2. “Is it important?” 3. “Does it match my version of the truth?” God in your goals, Rick Seymour.

  11. Part Two:Changing Your Mind

  12. The Greek word for “repentance” is metanoevw (metanoeo), which means to “change your mind.”

  13. So when God tells you to repent He’s telling you to change the way you think about something so you change the actions that result from your thinking.

  14. How to Change Your Life • Accept appropriate responsibility • Define what is important • Distinguish and deepen your beliefs

  15. Part Three:Changing Minds Changing Lives

  16. To Change Others… • You must lead them to Accept appropriate responsibility • You must relate to what is important to them • They must Distinguish and deepen their beliefs

  17. Distinguishing and deepening beliefs

  18. Christianity 101Family Worship Center Rev. Mark Schwarzbauer, Ph.D.

  19. Pentecost 101Family Worship Center Rev. Mark Schwarzbauer, Ph.D.

  20. Convictions that Conquered the World Family Worship Center Ministries Rev. Mark Schwarzbauer, Ph.D.

  21. The Issue of Life Family Worship Center Rev. Mark Schwarzbauer, Ph.D.

  22. Job: Questions ofa man in AgonyFamily Worship Center Dr. Mark Schwarzbauer

  23. Natural LawFamily Worship Center Pastor MarkSchwarzbauer, Ph.D.

  24. Your Philosophy of LifeFamily Worship Center Pastor MarkSchwarzbauer, Ph.D.

  25. The Purposeof Your PainFamily Worship Center Pastor Mark Schwarzbauer, Ph.D.

  26. Science and ChristianityPart OneFamily Worship Center Rev. Mark Schwarzbauer, Ph.D.

  27. The Shadowof GuiltFamily Worship Center Rev. MarkSchwarzbauer, Ph.D.

  28. What is the Point of Life? Family Worship Center Pastor Mark Schwarzbauer, Ph.D.

  29. Relating to and Defining What Is Important

  30. Leading People to Accept Appropriate Responsibility

  31. Your mission… Changing minds Changing lives…with love

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