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FEBRUARY 5, 2012
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The Social Landscape

We are exposed to between 400-600 advertisements or media
messages on a daily basis

Most of these images paint a picture of perfection. A perfect body.

A perfect family. A perfect home. A perfect relationship. A perfect life.

By the time a person is 17 they have received well over 250,000

commercial messages from the media. of message about attractiveness

One out of every four television commercials sends out some sort

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The Social Landscape

4 out of 5 US women are dissatised with their appearance 42% of girls in rst through third grade stated they want to be
thinner

1 in 8 teens deal with depression. Suicide is the 3rd leading cause of death between ages 15-24 In the US, over 8 million people battle eating disorders 5-12% of males in high school will use steroids by Grade 12

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why has our generation become so obsessed with perfection?

WHY?

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We live in a world of MASKS. Of FACES. We create an ideal of ourselves online. at school. at work. We have become EVERYTHING to EVERYONE. Always looking for approval. Always looking for LOVE. The problem is...

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[and neither do many of the people whose approval we seek]

we dont know how to LOVE.

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We look for attention. For someone to validate us. To tell us we are important. That we have value. But PERFECTION is IMPOSSIBLE in an IMPERFECT world

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We are on a journey to nd LOVE. To nd HOPE. To TRUST again. To be TRUSTED. To be CHANGED and to create CHANGE. To have healthy RELATIONSHIPS. This world needs you now more than ever before.

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Because if there is one thing we all need, no matter what our pain, no matter what our struggles, no matter what our confusion, Its LOVE.

LOVE.

Our journey begins with

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When we nd LOVE. We are able to better understand WHY. WHY we feel the way we do. WHY we face addiction. WHY we face depression. WHY we go to extremes to cope. To feel LOVED.

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This LOVE we seek, Its not a natural LOVE. Its not a physical LOVE. It is not there we nd PERFECTION. We nd PERFECTION. In ONE LOVE alone,

GODs LOVE.
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1 John 4:7-19
7Beloved, let us LOVE one another, for LOVE is of God; and everyone who LOVEs is born of God and knows God. 8He who does not LOVE does not know God, for God is LOVE. 9In this the LOVE of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. 10In this is LOVE, not that we LOVED God, but that He LOVED us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 11Beloved, if God so LOVED us, we also ought to LOVE one another. 12No one has seen God at any time. If we LOVE one another, God abides in us, and His LOVE has been perfected in us. 13By this we know that we abide in Him, and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit. 14And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as Savior of the world. 15Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. 16And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is LOVE, and he who abides in LOVE abides in God, and God in him. 17LOVE has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as He is, so are we in this world. 18There is no fear in LOVE; but perfect LOVE casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in LOVE. 19We LOVE Him because He rst LOVED us.

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