 I remember many years ago I've learned this the hard way, I was driving to meet one of my wonderful leaders for dinner and as I was driving you have to understand one thing about driving is that because you have a license and insurance and because you have gas and oil in the engine that does not give you the permission to make attention behind the wheel optional at the time that they had no law driving and texting was prohibited and at that time we had MySpace anybody remembers MySpace those are good old days floppy disks VHS and MySpace yes 395 bridge remember it like yesterday driving to my friend and my MySpace notification went up I can mention this person's I remember it like yesterday this person post on my MySpace a comment I listened to one of your sermons on YouTube it impacted me so much here I am driving and I am distracted I'm no longer paying my attention to the road I have my hand on my wheel I have my my foot on my pedal everything is going good with the car I am not an illegal driver I have an insurance everything is fine the only thing was missing in that driving is my focus and you know what was missing in the driving everything else because right in that second I don't know where the car appeared that car was right in front of me I slammed the brakes and I break the car's main body frame and shatter the bumper of mine get a big fat ticket and come back home literally devastated I had insurance I had gas I had a car I had right mind the only thing I lacked is attention most of us think this if I have education if I go to church if I have a good boyfriend who's a Christian and I am ready to get married if I have everything that I need it doesn't matter where my life is focused or not what matters is whether I live right or not you are wrong apostle Peter says don't fall from your focus you have to protect your focus as a church we must understand because we have a c beautiful building and the worship band and the pastor that does not means that we can let our focus be on something else than what Jesus told us to focus on there was no driving and texting 2000 years ago but Jesus knew that this day will come and he said those days people would plow and drive and text and plow and he would say anytime you put your hands to the plow he says do not become distracted he said don't think that because my hands are on the plow I can turn my head to whatever it wants to look Jesus says if that is going to happen you are not going to be able to be fit for the kingdom of God the success of our church is not going to depend on how talented we are it's going to depend on this one thing how focused we are the success of your individual life is not going to depend on how much time you have but how focused you are how focused you are will determine how successful you will be you have to do everything it takes to protect your focus you have to remove these lies if I don't smoke if I don't drink if I don't sleep around if I don't look at pornography if I come to church every Wednesday and Sunday and I bring 10% of my income and once in a while I help my home group leader and when the church has an activity I am there that is enough but I can sit here my mind can be somewhat else my life is completely scattered and shattered it's not my purpose to win people to Jesus Christ my friend that life could end up in a wreck because your life's value is in its focus