hi Pastor Craig I am so excited about our topic today because I have big questions and I know you always have amazing answers so welcome Pastor Craig Rochelle Lisa it’s great to be back with you I always uh always enjoy our time together it’s just terrific to have you here today and it’s so terrific to get to spend some time talking about your new book the power to change and I’m going to actually hold the book up I wish we had a mirror copy so that everyone could see a mirrored copy if you’re joining by just listening today
it’s a awesome orange cover that has big bold white letters the power to change by Craig groeschel who is by the way New York Times best-selling author and like I said before pastor of Life church so let’s just Jump Right In what motivated you to write this book so interesting uh enough Lisa the um the theme of this book I think is maybe perhaps the most Core theme to my life it’s it’s really all about choosing discipline and I wanted to write a book on discipline but the publisher said nobody wants to hear
about discipline so it’s uh so we wrote about the power to change which really talks about how do we create the right habits and the right disciplines in our life to bring about the right outcomes I think a lot of times we get so focused on the outcome that this is you know what I want to do or who I want to become that we don’t know how to get there and get really frustrated so the book is about how to create the right inputs in our lives that will bring about the god-honoring outcomes because I know for me I’m just going to
make a couple of confessions on this podcast if that’s okay that’s a way please okay I like the thought of change but when it comes down to breaking it down into the daily disciplines and new habits that I need to form to create lasting change sometimes I get highly unmotivated so highly motivated want the change but unmotivated in creating what’s necessary to bring about the change so what do you say to people who say I want change um but I just don’t know that I can do this well I think that that’s very common for all of us that it’s really
