Moving Forward

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Moving Forward
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one FORGET THE PAST
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Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have
taken hold of it. But one thing I do Forgetting
what is behind and straining toward what is
ahead, Philippians 313 (NIV)
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1 Past Failures
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2 Past Successes
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two EMBRACE CHANGE
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In the book Good to Great, Jim Collins compares
A P to Kroger. In the early 1950s the great
Atlantic Pacific Tea Company commonly known as
A P, stood as the largest retailing
organization in the world and one of the largest
corporations in the United States at one point
ranking only behind General Motors in annual
sales.Kroger, in contrast, stood as an
unspectacular grocery chain, less than half the
size of A P. Then in the 1960s A P began to
falter while Kroger began to lay the foundations
for a transition into a great company. Over the
next 25 years Kroger generated cumulative returns
10 times over the market and 80 times better than
A P.A P had a strategy right for the times,
but the times changed while A P stuck its head
in the sand.Kroger succeeded because they were
willing to change. A P failed because they were
unwilling to change.
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 (36) He told them this parable "No one tears a
patch from a new garment and sews it on an old
one. If he does, he will have torn the new
garment, and the patch from the new will not
match the old. (37) And no one pours new wine
into old wineskins. If he does, the new wine will
burst the skins, the wine will run out and the
wineskins will be ruined. (38) No, new wine must
be poured into new wineskins. (39) And no one
after drinking old wine wants the new, for he
says, 'The old is better.' Luke 536-39 (NIV)
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Didn't we say to you in Egypt, 'Leave us alone
let us serve the Egyptians'? It would have been
better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die
in the desert! Exodus 1412 (NIV)
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And they said to each other, "We should choose a
leader and go back to Egypt. Numbers 144 (NIV)
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No, new wine must be poured into new
wineskins. Luke 538 (NIV)
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three CONTINUE TO GO TO THE NATIONS
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Therefore go and make disciples of all nations,
baptizing them in the name of the Father and of
the Son and of the Holy Spirit, Matthew
2819 (NIV)
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 He said to them, "Go into all the world and
preach the good news to all creation.Mark
1615 (NIV)
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and repentance and forgiveness of sins will be
preached in his name to all nations, beginning at
Jerusalem.Luke 2447 (NIV)
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But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit
comes on you and you will be my witnesses in
Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to
the ends of the earth.Acts 18 (NIV)
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