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TOPUCU Adult Faith-Based Workbook Lesson 7: Part 1

LESSON 7: PART 1
want you to journal your time for the next work to do. It’s not going to be easy at first –
seven days. Literally write down blocks of we’ve already discussed how difficult it is to BURN THE BRIDGE
time you spend doing every task in your start new habits and break old ones. But this
week. For example: “7 AM to 7:45 AM I got is your life we’re talking about. This is your
ready for school. 7:45 AM to 8 AM traveled own personal development. This is not the
to school. 8 AM to 3 PM I was in school,” and time to be tentative or lazy or complacent.
so on. If your schedule looks like this, what This is the time to put on your hardhat and Today’s lesson is titled, “Burn the Bridge.” move forward you have to make a total
are you doing during that 3 PM to 9 PM go to work. Because, remember if you don’t – This saying has been used in a number of commitment to your future. And that’s what
block? What are you doing during that 6 The Only Person U Cheat is U. TOPUCU. ways throughout time. Often, it’s used as burning the bridge is all about. Making a
AM to 7 AM block? Write everything down. cautionary advice to encourage you not to commitment. In the first part of this lesson,
Then at the end of the seven days, review Your memorization for this lesson is simple destroy relationships that could potentially we’re going to stress the importance of
everything on the list and put them into to learn yet hard to do at the start. Memorize, be beneficial to you at some point in the commitment and give you several examples
categories: important tasks and unimportant Do Six Things, that's easy. Now do the top future. Someone might say, “Don’t burn of people who have epitomized this
tasks. How does your list of important tasks six things on your priority list every day, that bridge,” as a way to explain why you principle. In the second part of the lesson,
stack up next to your list of unimportant which will be hard in the beginning, but will should have an amiable discussion with a we’re going to present you with some tools
tasks? This will confirm whether you’ve transform your life if you master it. person that wronged you instead of and secrets that successful people have been
learned this lesson or whether you have chewing them out. using to keep themselves committed to the
goals they are striving for.
But for the purposes of our discussion, we
LESSON 6: QUIZ want you to burn the bridge. In Paul’s letter There are numerous instances throughout
to the Philippians he writes, “Brothers, I
history where you can see this kind of
do not consider that I have made it my commitment. For example, there have been
own. But one thing I do: forgetting what times when an army would land in a foreign
lies behind and straining forward to what country and the commander of that army
1. What is the recommended time to spend
daily on yourself and your goals? lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for would order the soldiers to “burn the ships!”
the prize of the upward call of God in The idea here is pretty simple: conquer this
Christ Jesus.” Philippians 3:13-14 (ESV) nation and have them build new ships to get
This verse directly speaks to the idea of home or be driven back into the sea. You can
burning the bridge and leaving an old life imagine that this motivated the army to fight
2. How many tasks should you concentrate behind and pushing forward to something a little harder.
on completing every day? new and greater. Listen, if you are going to And what about the story of a man named
be successful in changing that bad habit or
th
reaching that transformation goal you’re Lot in the 19 chapter of Genesis? He and his
working on through this program, you will family were the last righteous people in the
cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. Because of
NOTES: have to burn the bridge! the wickedness that plagued the region, God
3. You can maximize your 168 by being more
productive and creating Burn the bridge that links you to the made a decision to destroy it with fire from
negativity in your past. Burn the bridge that the sky. The Lord sent angelic messengers
days. reminds you of things that are holding you to tell Lot of the cities’ impending doom.
back from reaching your full potential. Burn They visited him in his home and implored
the bridge to the excuses that have kept you him to leave before it was too late. Lot and

4. What six tasks will you accomplish today? from taking that next step. Burn the bridge! his family were reluctant to abandon their
home, but finally agreed to flee Sodom and
Everything we have spoken about in Gomorrah! The messengers also warned
the previous six lessons is useless if you them not to look back once they had left the
try to hang on to the past. In order to
city. However, as the fire began to fall from

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