Welcome to the in touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Thursday January 4th.

Today we're challenged to turn ourselves toward a new year with renewed passion to put our faith into action. Here's part two of Vision Without Boundaries.

I'm fully persuaded that most of us fail to achieve our goals, reach our dreams, our strong desires in life simply because we unknowingly set boundaries,

limitations upon ourselves, and just give up and consent to mental barriers we originate ourselves and then

wonder why we don't accomplish those things. What is true in our life

personally will be projected in the life of the church. What we hear in the church

will be projected in our personal life. So I want us to take a couple of

passages that are very very familiar to us and I want us to think in terms

primarily about the church but also in your own personal life.

So I want you to turn to these two.

They're too familiar passages and usually people say, oh, I know that one by heart.

But sometimes what I know by heart may be the very thing that trips me up.

Oh, I know what that says. And this is a good example of it. I want you to turn to

Matthew chapter 28. And I want you to turn to Matthew chapter 28 and I want us to begin reading in the

16th verse and when you turn to Matthew 28 then before we read turn if you will

to axe chapter 1 so Matthew 28 in acts chapter one, two familiar

passages but two very important ones concerning this whole idea of

visions without boundaries. In the 28th chapter of Matthew in the 16th verse

remembering that Jesus has risen from the dead. This is his final meeting with his

disciples here on earth and he says,

but the 11 disciples proceeded to Galilee to the mountain which Jesus had designated.

And when they saw him, they worshipped him, but some were doubtful.

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