How many sponsors does it take to change a lightbulb?
One, but the lightbulb has to really want to change.
I gave the programme a pretty good go at one point but found myself still unhappy about the same things (romance, work, money). Did the programme not work?
The programme had worked perfectly well. It had highlighted my selfishness, my materialistic values, my self-absorption, the centring of my life on myself, my objectives, my design. It had offered me new values and a new way of life, centred on God, message-carrying, and service. But the programme won’t change my values or my thinking or my behaviour. I have to do it. The programme and God give me the direction and strength, but I have to take the initiative and then adopt the new way of life, from the inside out, consistently and resolutely.