Ingredients for Success, by Senior Pastor Fred Garcia

I want to talk to you today about recipes. Recipes from the foundation of any good baked good or dish, CLF, strawberry pie, French onion soup… However, while recipes are good, any good chef or baker will tell you, they are often only the starting point, the core ingredients often stay the same, but a good chef or baker tends to tweak the recipe to their own liking and it’s often that unique blend that makes them successful. Sometimes it’s the quality of the ingredients, cheap steak tastes like cheap steak, sometimes it’s what we try and pair them with, you don’t mix canned tuna with dark chocolate…We see the same in the Christian life. There are certain ingredients, like the 10commandments that cannot be sacrificed, but to follow them like a recipe will only take us so far in life. The ingredients found in God’s word need to be of good quality, and they need the unique blend of the Master Chef as He works them into and out of our lives.

I want to share about 3 ingredients that will wreck you life this morning, that need to take center stage no matter what circumstance we find ourselves in, no matter what stage of life we find ourselves in. These are 3 core ingredients that, hands down, will put you over the top and make you successful in life no matter what you are called to do or to be…