Hello, welcome back for season two of the Excel Stillmore podcast. I am your host, Chris

Emerson, and I'm here to encourage you with tips and strategies to help you build stronger

relationships, deepen your faith, and just get the most out of your life. Thank you for

joining. Let's get started. Welcome to the program today. I have to tell you right out of the box,

I am so excited about this topic. If this was the very last Excel

Stillmore episode, if we were trying to put it all together into one thought and finish on the

highest possible note, I believe this would be it. Our episode today is titled, Be the Change,

and it represents the beginning of a fairly popular phrase, be the change you wish to see in the

world. I just have to tell you, this is 13 months of recording episodes.

And if there is one thing those episodes are designed to prove, it is this,

whatever change you hope to see in the people around you, in your family, in the church,

in the community, in America, it all begins with you changing.

As you grow, the opportunity for people around you to grow increases.

This idea that the way we change other people is telling them that they need to change?

Well, Dr. Phil would ask, how's that working out for you?

Even passive-aggressive approaches, which I often do take, like, hey, you really should check out this podcast episode,

or you really ought to look up that sermon doesn't really work. It's helpful,

but in the end it is your ability to change, to change the way you think, the way you speak,

the way you live, that begins to influence the people around you. In the same way that bad company

around you were worn biblically can be a problem for you, your good behavior can be a solution

for others. When you combine that with the scripture, you've really got something. In fact,

I would say this is the one takeaway that brings all of the

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