Our mind, when left unattended, is being trained by the world whether we realize it or not. Everything we see, hear, and experience is training us to think a certain way; “This is how I should look”, “This is what success looks like”, “This is what will make me happy”. And the more we consume the content we are engaging in, whether healthy or unhealthy, the more we will create deeper neural pathways in our brain to continue to believe the thoughts we are believing. In Romans 12:2, the Apostle Paul gives us the solution to creating new, consistently truthful and healthy neural pathways. It is what Paul calls “renewing your mind”. It’s in the process of renewing our minds that we experience what Thomas A Kempis called, “a family friendship with Jesus.” That’s what we are after together. Ethos is a life-giving community committed to keeping Jesus at its Center. Our vision is to be with Jesus, become like Jesus, and do what Jesus did so that we may love all people in Jesus' name. EthosOH.com Small Groups: EthosOH.com/Community ServeColumbus.org

Do you ever look at what’s going on around you and wonder how to escape the negativity? Maybe it’s not your circumstances that need to change—it’s your mindset. Most of life's battles are won or lost in the mind. The enemy knows this. The enemy will tell you that change is hopeless, that you’re a victim of your circumstance and your thought patterns. He will tell you to settle and find a way to just survive and be somewhat happy. He will urge you to accept that “this is just who you are” and that your thinking is rooted too deeply in your personality or upbringing to ever make a shift. Your first objective is to capture the thought – to face that defining and destructive thought and interrupt it. Easier said than done, but with God’s help, it can easily be done. Ethos is a life-giving community committed to keeping Jesus at its Center. Our vision is to be with Jesus, become like Jesus, and do what Jesus did so that we may love all people in Jesus' name. EthosOH.com Small Groups: EthosOH.com/Community ServeColumbus.org

Ethos is a life-giving community committed to keeping Jesus at its Center. Our vision is to be with Jesus, become like Jesus, and do what Jesus did so that we may love all people in Jesus' name. EthosOH.com Small Groups: EthosOH.com/Community ServeColumbus.org

In modern psychology a discipline has developed called cognitive behavior therapy. It teaches that many problems from eating disorders to relational challenges, addictions, and even some forms of depression and anxiety are rooted in faulty and negative patterns of thinking. Treating these problems begins with changing what you think. Proverbs 23:7 says, “For as he thinks in his heart, so is he.” In other words, how we think, shapes our lives. Both science and scripture teach us that our lives are moving in the direction of our strongest thoughts. That’s why this is so important. Ethos is a life-giving community committed to keeping Jesus at its Center. Our vision is to be with Jesus, become like Jesus, and do what Jesus did so that we may love all people in Jesus' name. EthosOH.com Small Groups: EthosOH.com/Community ServeColumbus.org