Overcoming Slave Mentality

Getting Israel out of Egypt was easier than getting Egypt out of Israel.  How do we address the slave mentality?  We were once slaves.  We must realize this and the slave way of thinking must not go forward.  We must choose to obey God and not men, that is our freedom.  We must not dwell on what we cannot do, but what Christ can do in us (Phil 4:13)  Think like a son, not a slave. We are not here because of a shared history, but a shared future.

Brian Shaw has been a member of the Church of God since 1982. He was ordained an elder in the United Church of God in September, 2003 and was hired into the full-time ministry in September, 2009. Completing UCG Pastoral Training in March 2010, Mr. Shaw presently serves as the pastor of the UCG congregations in Minneapolis/St. Paul, Little Falls, and Duluth, Minnesota, as well as Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Mr. Shaw also holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Management Sciences from the State University of New York at Oswego, and an MBA from Northern Illinois University. He also received the Vachel Pennebaker Award in Direct Marketing from DePaul University.