Attitudes

This Sunday morning I am teaching on the subject of attitudes. Some thoughts about attitudes that will not be in my sermon.

Having a correct attitude can make or break a situation, a family, a job, and even a church (or should I say especially a church).

Why do some people have bad attitudes?

1. Problems. Problems can cause us to live with negative feelings toward life. We can begin to think t ourselves, "if only this problem wasn't here, If only I could get a better job, If only I could lose more weight, If only I could get out of debt."

And when that happens, when things don't take place in the way we think it should happen or in the time frame that it should happen it can give us a bad attitude.

2. Negativism. Someone once wrote that there are three types of people: those who make things happen, those who watch tings happen, and those who say, "what happened."

The destructive force behind negativism is that is is contagious. It blows everything out of proportion. It limits your potential.

3. Change. Something I have been blogging about a lot lately. We resist change, don't we. We are creatures of habit. We form habits and then we let our habits form us. We are what we repeatedly do.

When that is touched ti can give us a feeling of insecurity which can bring about a bad attitude.

Again, change doesn't bring growth, but growth means change.

More tomorrow.....