Sticky Note:  When I am weak, then I am strong.

The Gospel:  Jesus, the Strong One, became weak so that the weak ones could be saved.

6 Steps of Strength (that inhibit our experience of nearness to God)
    Self-protection
    Self-promotion
    Self-law (making up our own rules)
    Focusing on the externals
    Building a culture with God missing
    Perpetuating the cycle of retaliation

1 Step of Weakness (the remedy to distance from God)
    Call on the name of the Lord Jesus...and keep calling

God resists the strong but gives grace to the weak