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    Jesus' Six Keys to a More Perfect You
    Jesus' Six Keys to a More Perfect You
    Jesus' Six Keys to a More Perfect You
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    Jesus' Six Keys to a More Perfect You

    By John O'Neill

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    Jesus’ 6 Keys to a More Perfect You presents Jesus’ teachings on the six keys to living an active, relational spirituality through merciful service to needy others in this time and place. Each of the keys demonstrates how you can transform yourself, step-by-step, into the effective agent for positive change in this world that your Creator designed you to be.
    Developed and taught by the greatest authority on positive world-change, Jesus’ Way will inspire you, as it has inspired untold billions over the past twenty centuries, to grow in Christ-likeness for the betterment of humankind and the extension of His Father’s kingdom on earth.
    Additional features of this book include practical ways in which you can serve the less fortunate right in your own community, contact information for specific charitable organizations and suggestions about further readings on these six keys to your spiritual perfection.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJohn O'Neill
    Release dateJan 19, 2011
    ISBN9781452495101
    Jesus' Six Keys to a More Perfect You
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    John O'Neill

    About the Author John O’Neill is a retired Naval Commander of the Royal Australian Navy who served most of his time as a Submarine Engineering Officer. Those years provided him with a range of experiences that were at times tense, but mostly of achievement. He served as the Submarine Staff Officer in London during the IRA terrorist days and the build of the remaining Oberon Class Submarines for Australia. Upon retiring from the Navy, he joined the Swedish Submarine builder Kockums to build the Collins Class Submarine in Adelaide South Australia. John holds a master’s degree in Business and Technology from the University of New South Wales. Seven Long Steps To Paradise is John’s third book, the first two being Kafira, and Two Crowns. John was awarded the Order of Australia Medal in 2009.

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      Jesus' Six Keys to a More Perfect You - John O'Neill

      Jesus’ Six Keys to a More Perfect You

      Jesus’ own six-step program to change you into the

      extraordinary person your Creator has designed you to be

      Published by John O’Neill

      Copyright 2011 John O’Neill

      Smashwords Edition

      The Scriptural quotations contained herein are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, Catholic Edition, Anglicized Text, copyright 1999, 1995, 1989, Division of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America.

      Smashwords Edition License Notes:

      This eBook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This eBook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each reader. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Cover Design by Meghan O’Neill

      Cover Art: Sermon on the Mount by Henrik Olrik

      (Mural above the altar at Sankt Matthaeus Kirke, Copenhagen, Denmark.)

      ISBN: 978-1-4524-9510-1

      Table of Contents

      Dedication

      Preface: Your Reason for Being

      Chapter 1: The First Key

      Chapter 2: The Second Key

      Chapter 3: The Third Key

      Chapter 4: The Fourth Key

      Chapter 5: The Fifth Key

      Chapter 6: The Sixth Key

      Chapter 7: Works of Mercy

      Appendix A: Works of Mercy Organizations

      Appendix B: Bibliography

      About the Author

      Dedication

      To my beloved Mary Ann who, for the past forty-three years, has inspired me by her loving service to others to try to practice what Jesus teaches in these pages.

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      Preface: Your Reason for Being

      You are a unique person, chosen by your Creator as the one out of an astronomical number of possibilities to win the life-lottery at that particular moment on that particular day in that particular month of that particular year in that particular place of your conception. You are the unduplicated product of innumerable family histories, of a complex series of an indeterminate number of free choices made by all of your ancestors throughout the history of the human race. You are the sum of myriad characteristics and qualities passed on in your ancestral gene pool, to which you’ve added your own unique mix for all your family generations to come. If, at any time during all of your family history, certain events had not occurred as they did, or certain choices had not been made as they were, you would not exist nor would any of your descendants.

      You truly are one-of-a-kind, the product of an intricate master plan throughout human history, devised by the all-powerful, always-and-everywhere-present and all-knowing and loving Back to God who, with the cooperation of your biological parents, brought you into existence at a particular time and place for a particular purpose known only to your Creator.

      As part of this plan, God has equipped you with a unique combination of gifts and strengths. These, along with your training and skill-sets, enable you to play an important role in the specific tasks for which God created you. You have only to discover these tasks and to do your best to carry them out hour-by-hour, day by day, month by month and year by year.

      But how can you discover them, much less carry them out? Two millennia ago, Jesus Christ emerged from the obscurity of a remote village perched on a hill in Galilee, a far-flung outpost of the Roman Empire, to proclaim to the people of Palestine a revolution in human thought, no less than a revelation of divine wisdom. His teaching during three brief years of public ministry continues to this day to inspire people worldwide to solve specific problems in the world: to give aid to the poor, the hungry, the thirsty, the unschooled, the homeless, the naked, the mentally and the physically ill, the grieving, the afflicted, the ravaged, the persecuted, the war-torn, and the imprisoned — anyone in any way marginalized.

      This book presents to you Jesus’ six keys to an active, relational spirituality modeled after the inner life of God. Jesus revealed this deepest mystery of our faith so that we might offer to the Father, through Him, in the Holy Spirit loving and merciful service to others in need. In imitation of Jesus, in loving relation with the Father and the Holy Spirit, through our merciful inter-personal actions toward needy others, we will transform yourself into the effective agent for positive change in this world that our Creator designed us to be. Developed and taught by the Son of God, the greatest authority on positive world-change, the Way of Jesus Christ has inspired untold billions over the past twenty centuries to transform themselves into His likeness for the betterment of humankind and the extension of his Father’s kingdom on earth. Jesus calls each of us to play our role in effecting the renewal of His Way of life on earth.

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      Chapter 1: The First Key, Change Your Way of Thinking

      Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near (Matthew 4:17). Jesus used the word Repent! to command us to reverse completely our human way of thinking and doing things to coincide with God’s paradoxical way expressed in Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5:1-12), in the Lord’s Prayer (Matthew 6:9-15) and in His discourse on the last judgment (Matthew 25:31-46). This is the first key toward fulfilling your part in God’s plan for world change: transform yourself so that you can

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