We are all sons and daughters of God. We have different gifts and personalities, but the same Holy Spirit lives in you as in Justin, Ryan, or me. Each of us is to use the gifts we’ve been given to encourage the body.

Perspective shifts.. Glass half full vs half empty, partly cloudy skies vs partly sunny, etc.

• His Entire perspective was new! (slide)

o Darkness was now light

o Everything from complete black to full vivid color

• Everything changed for him at that moment… like with us, maybe not in the natural, but the immediate change in our identity is the same.

o Like the blind man, I now see things in a completely new way..