Speaker 1: Last week we looked at the first of the five
Speaker 1: callings that God has for your life. In this series
Speaker 1: on live your calling, that God has called you to
Speaker 1: be loved before you do anything else. You don't do
Speaker 1: anything for God. You just let God love you. You
Speaker 1: are called to be loved. This week we look at
Speaker 1: the second calling of life, and it is this. You
Speaker 1: have been called to not just be loved, You've been
Speaker 1: called to belong. To belong to God's Church, which is
Speaker 1: going to go on and on forever in eternity. Now
Speaker 1: the Bible says this Hebrews Chapter C, Verse ten. God
Speaker 1: is the one who made all things, and all things
Speaker 1: are for his glory. He wanted to have many children
Speaker 1: share in his glory. God created the entire universe because
Speaker 1: he wanted a family. And God doesn't want his children
Speaker 1: to be orphans. He doesn't want his children to be
Speaker 1: street kids. He puts them in the family, and that
Speaker 1: family is called the Church. Now I want you to
Speaker 1: write this down. The second purpose of my life is
Speaker 1: that God formed me for his family. God formed me
Speaker 1: for his family. If God hadn't wanted a family, you
Speaker 1: wouldn't exist. But God made you because He loves you
Speaker 1: and He wants you to love him back, and he
Speaker 1: wants you to be a part of his family. You
Speaker 1: were formed for God's family. This has been his plan
Speaker 1: from the very beginning of time. Ephesians one says this,
Speaker 1: His unchanging plan has always been to adopt us into
Speaker 1: his own family by bringing this to himself through Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1: So the first purpose of God for my life is
Speaker 1: that I am I beloved by Him. But the second
Speaker 1: purpose of my life is that I belong to Him,
Speaker 1: and that I belong to his family. Now, God's family,
Speaker 1: write this down, is called the Church. That's what God
Speaker 1: called his family. He calls his family the Church, the
Speaker 1: Church of God, the Church of Jesus Christ. One Timothy
Speaker 1: chapter three says this, I'm writing to you so that
Speaker 1: you will know how to live in the family of God.
Speaker 1: Paul's writing in Timothy says, I want you, guys to
Speaker 1: know how to live in the family of God. That
Speaker 1: family is the Church circle that that family is the Church.
Speaker 1: That family is the Church of the Living God, the
Speaker 1: support and foundation of the Truth. So God formed me
Speaker 1: for his family. His family is called the Church. And
Speaker 1: the third thing I want you to get is that
Speaker 1: I'm called to belong to that family. I'm called to
Speaker 1: belong to his church, and the Bible says this in
Speaker 1: Ephesians two nineteen. So now you are no longer visitors
Speaker 1: or strangers. Now you are citizens together with God's holy people,
Speaker 1: and you belong to God's family. Just underline that, start
Speaker 1: circleing you belong to God's family. That is the second
Speaker 1: calling or purpose or reason or mission of your life.
Speaker 1: First to know God, who loves you dearly, but second
Speaker 1: is to be a part of His family. And that
Speaker 1: family is called the church. Romans one six says you
Speaker 1: are among those who have been called to belong to
Speaker 1: Jesus Christ. The word church literally means the group of
Speaker 1: people who are called by God, the called out ecclesia
Speaker 1: called by God. Christianity is based on God's word, and
Speaker 1: God's word says the church is the called out. In
Speaker 1: other words, church is an event. It isn't a program,
Speaker 1: It isn't a building. If I ask most people what
Speaker 1: do you think of church? Is they think of a
Speaker 1: building or they think if it's something you go to.
Speaker 1: I'm going to church, not something you go to. Church
Speaker 1: is something you belong to. It is not an event
Speaker 1: and it's not a location. Church is a relationship. Now
Speaker 1: we worship here, we have a place here, but this
Speaker 1: is not the church is the people of God.
Speaker 2: It's our relationship.
Speaker 1: What I want to do this weekend is share with
Speaker 1: you the five benefits of belonging. Because God designed his family,
Speaker 1: the church, to meet your five deepest needs. In fact,
Speaker 1: the church is the only thing that can meet your
Speaker 1: five deepest needs. In the Bible, the church is often
Speaker 1: referred to by a different metaphor. The church is called
Speaker 1: a family, the church is called a temple, the church
Speaker 1: is called a body, the church is called a flock,
Speaker 1: and the church is called a garden. Each one of
Speaker 1: these have profound implications for your life. And if you
Speaker 1: understand the five meanings of these five metaphors, you will
Speaker 1: understand how the church was designed. God's family was designed
Speaker 1: to meet your deepest needs in life.
Speaker 2: Now let's get into this.
Speaker 1: The first metaphor that the Bible describes the church as
Speaker 1: is one we all are familiar with, and it is
Speaker 1: this a family. It is a family, and in a
Speaker 1: healthy family, one of the benefits of a healthy family
Speaker 1: is you're taught who you are, You learn your identity.
Speaker 1: So the first thing I want you to write down
Speaker 1: is that in God's family, the first benefit is I
Speaker 1: learn my true identity.
Speaker 2: You're not going to learn it from the world.
Speaker 1: You're not going to learn it from your parents, You're
Speaker 1: not going to learn it from your peers or anybody else.
Speaker 1: Your true identity is found in relationship to God's family. Now,
Speaker 1: we're all concerned about our identity. In fact, we do
Speaker 1: this by the kind of clothes we wear. Have you
Speaker 1: noticed that people like to wear clothes that have brands
Speaker 1: on them or have logos on them.
Speaker 2: But the truth is.
Speaker 1: Most of your identity comes from your relationships, for good
Speaker 1: or bad. And if you have good relationships, you have
Speaker 1: a good identity. If you have bad relationships, your identity
Speaker 1: is much more difficult. See I am a grandson, I'm
Speaker 1: a son, I'm a father, I'm a husband, I'm a grandfather.
Speaker 1: I'm a team member, I'm a small group member, I'm
Speaker 1: a pastor, I'm an employer. All of these are relationships
Speaker 1: that define who I am. You know who you are
Speaker 1: in relationship to other people. Now what that means is
Speaker 1: if my connections or my relationships get broken, or my
Speaker 1: connections or relationships are poor, then I have a hard
Speaker 1: time of knowing who I really am. Anybody who's gone
Speaker 1: through a divorce knows. After divorce, you go, now, who
Speaker 1: am I? Because your relationship was tied to that person,
Speaker 1: Or somebody who's been married to someone for a long
Speaker 1: time and that loved one that spouse dies. It's very common,
Speaker 1: very natural, and normal people go now, who am I?
Speaker 1: What's my place? What's my role? Or if you get
Speaker 1: laid off and your identity has been tied to your work,
Speaker 1: you're going, who am I?
Speaker 2: What's my identity?
Speaker 1: And so our identity is actually tied to our relationships. Now,
Speaker 1: the problem with this is a lot of us don't
Speaker 1: have very good relationships growing up. And some of you
Speaker 1: would say, you know, Rick, my family was dysfunctional, my
Speaker 1: family was broken, my family was really nonexistent, So how
Speaker 1: do I know who I am? Well, here's the good news. Ephesians,
Speaker 1: chapter two, verse nineteen. You are members of God's very
Speaker 1: own family, and you belong in God's household with every
Speaker 1: other Christian. Now doesn't matter what other families you've had.
Speaker 1: Your most important family is God's family. Why, because that's
Speaker 1: the permanent one. It's gonna last, it's gonna last forever. Actually,
Speaker 1: your physical family was just a channel to get you
Speaker 1: into God's family. God used your parents, whether they were
Speaker 1: good parents, bad parents, or indifferent parents, or maybe you
Speaker 1: never ethe knew him. He used them to bring you
Speaker 1: into the world. But his real goal was not to
Speaker 1: keep you in that family, but to put you into
Speaker 1: His family. You see, I hate to say this to you,
Speaker 1: maybe a shock to you, but your spiritual family is
Speaker 1: actually more important than your physical family because no physical
Speaker 1: family lasts. People grow up, they move away, people get divorced,
Speaker 1: people die. No physical family lasts. We know that, But
Speaker 1: your spiritual family is gonna last forever and ever and
Speaker 1: ever and ever and ever, so it's actually more important.
Speaker 1: In fact, the Bible says God created the entire universe
Speaker 1: for his spiritual family, the church. When you get your
Speaker 1: identity from that, then you get a long term identity.
Speaker 2: See.
Speaker 1: The problem is we go out trying to look for
Speaker 1: identity and things that aren't going to last, and the
Speaker 1: world judges your identity on all the external stuff, not
Speaker 1: the internal. The world says to you, you're short, you
Speaker 1: have black hair, you are of Asian descent, or European
Speaker 1: or African American or Latin America or whatever. You have
Speaker 1: this kind of thing, and this is your political party,
Speaker 1: and this is your job, and you are an American,
Speaker 1: and those are all interesting identifiers, but none of them
Speaker 1: are going to last. Yes, I am an American, but
Speaker 1: there's something more important than that. I'm a member of
Speaker 1: the family of God. America isn't going to last. No
Speaker 1: kingdom lasts one thousand years or two thousand years or
Speaker 1: ten thousand years. Where's the hit Dyed Empire, Where's the
Speaker 1: Assyrian Empire? They don't last. So if you want your
Speaker 1: identity to last, you put into something that's never going
Speaker 1: to change. And the Bible says God's family, the Church,
Speaker 1: is going to go on for all of eternity, because
Speaker 1: it's why God made the universe. What matters most is
Speaker 1: your spiritual identity. Hebrews chapter two, verse eleven says this
Speaker 1: Jesus and the people he makes holy all belong to
Speaker 1: the same family. So this is why he, Jesus isn't
Speaker 1: ashamed to call them his.
Speaker 2: Brothers and sisters.
Speaker 1: Did you know that Jesus calls you his sister, That
Speaker 1: Jesus calls you his brother. That's a pretty amazing thing.
Speaker 1: And it says he isn't ashamed to call you his
Speaker 1: brother or sister. Have you ever had a brother or
Speaker 1: sister you are ashamed of?
Speaker 2: Don't answer. You may have, you may have, But Jesus.
Speaker 1: Isn't ashamed to call you his brother's sister, no matter
Speaker 1: how messed up your life.
Speaker 2: Is why because you're in the family.
Speaker 1: You see, this is one of the great things about
Speaker 1: being in the family of God, is that your sin
Speaker 1: doesn't define you anymore. Yes, you sin, but it's not
Speaker 1: your defining characteristic.
Speaker 2: Let me explain it this way.
Speaker 1: It's the difference between Alcoholics Anonymous and Celebrate Recovery. Celebrate Recovery,
Speaker 1: of course, was started at Saddleback Church. Alcoholics Anonymous is
Speaker 1: a good program, it's very good program, but I think
Speaker 1: Celebrate Recovers a whole lot better for a number reason.
Speaker 1: It's Christ centered. But one of the reasons is we
Speaker 1: say and celebrate recovery. Your sin does not define you.
Speaker 1: Your sin is not your identity. Here's the difference. If
Speaker 1: you were to go to an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, you
Speaker 1: would stand up and you'd say hi, my name is Rick,
Speaker 1: and I'm an alcoholic, and you would be saying that
Speaker 1: the rest of your life you're letting your sin define you.
Speaker 1: At saddleback and celebrate recovery. People stand up and say, Hi,
Speaker 1: my name is Rick. I'm a child of God who
Speaker 1: struggles with alcohol.
Speaker 2: See the difference. Big difference.
Speaker 1: His difference was saying saying you know, I struggle with
Speaker 1: lying or saying I'm a liar. Big difference. Your identity
Speaker 1: is not your sin. Does that make sense? That's why
Speaker 1: Jesus is not ashamed of you to call you a
Speaker 1: brother's sister, because once you're in the.
Speaker 2: Family, you're in the family.
Speaker 1: You may be a little weird, but you're in the family,
Speaker 1: and you may have some sin in your life, but
Speaker 1: you're in the family, and brothers stick up for brothers
Speaker 1: and sisters, and the Bible says Jesus is.
Speaker 2: Not ashamed of you.
Speaker 1: By belonging to God's family, you will learn your true identity.
Speaker 3: Hey, would you like to go deeper with pastor Rick
Speaker 3: to discover God's purpose in your life? Well now you
Speaker 3: can with the video based study kit called What on
Speaker 3: Earth Am I here for? This life changing study is
Speaker 3: taught by Rick and includes a workbook and six video sessions.
Speaker 3: As you go through these lessons, you'll embark on a
Speaker 3: journey of discovery to answer life's most fundamental question, what
Speaker 3: on earth am I here for? You'll learn that it's
Speaker 3: only in God that we discover our origin, our identity,
Speaker 3: our meaning, our purpose, our significance, and our destiny.
Speaker 2: Every other path.
Speaker 3: Leads to a dead end. This resource is packed with
Speaker 3: biblically centered principles and is perfect for personal or small
Speaker 3: group study. So be sure to request this study kit
Speaker 3: when you give a gift to Daily Hope to help
Speaker 3: share the hope of Jesus with a hurting world. We'll
Speaker 3: send it to you today as our way of saying thanks.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: A lot of families to advertise their identity. They have
Speaker 1: a symbol, or they have a family. Scottish families have
Speaker 1: a plaid that the finds our families, and a lot
Speaker 1: of groups will have some.
Speaker 2: Kind of mark.
Speaker 1: I mean, gangs will often get a similar tattoo. So
Speaker 1: when you have a certain tattoo, then you know you're
Speaker 1: part of that gang. Do you know what is the
Speaker 1: mark the symbol of being in God's family? You know
Speaker 1: what it is. It's baptism. Being baptized is the public
Speaker 1: symbol that says I'm not ashamed to say I'm a
Speaker 1: part of the family. I'm advertising in the world. I
Speaker 1: don't understand it all, but I'm in. If you haven't
Speaker 1: been baptized, you need to be baptized. That's the symbol
Speaker 1: that says I'm in the family. It's coming out of
Speaker 1: the closet. It's your public proclamation, it's your coming out party,
Speaker 1: and you need to be baptized. The Bible says this
Speaker 1: in Acts chapter two. Those who believed what Peter had
Speaker 1: said were baptized and added to the church about three thousand,
Speaker 1: about three thousand people that day.
Speaker 2: Those day of kind of costs.
Speaker 1: So you believe, then you get baptized, then you get
Speaker 1: added to the church. Now that's the first metaphor. I'm
Speaker 1: in a family, and my family helps me understand my
Speaker 1: true identity. That's why a lot of people go back
Speaker 1: and trace their genealogies to discover their true identity. Now
Speaker 1: there's a second metaphor that God uses to describe the church,
Speaker 1: and he says the church is like a temple.
Speaker 2: It's like a temple.
Speaker 1: Another words, it's like a building that is erected for
Speaker 1: God's glory. It's a building where God's presence shows up,
Speaker 1: where God has loved, where God is honored and worship
Speaker 1: a temple. And the Bible says in one Corinthians three sixteen.
Speaker 1: Here on the screen, don't you realize that all of
Speaker 1: you together are the temple of God, and His spirit
Speaker 1: lives in you. He's talking to the church, you know.
Speaker 1: I remember when we have been building buildings here on
Speaker 1: the Lake Forest campus over many years, and as each
Speaker 1: ound of them is built, I'll walk through them as
Speaker 1: they're getting built, and I'll see all of the carpenters
Speaker 1: and the construction workers building all things. And I've noticed
Speaker 1: that it takes thousands of different pieces to build a building.
Speaker 1: But the most important thing is that the pieces have
Speaker 1: to fit together. If you have a beam that's a
Speaker 1: half an inch short, it doesn't hold up the roof,
Speaker 1: And if you have a pipe that's one inch too long,
Speaker 1: it doesn't make a connection. And if you don't make
Speaker 1: the connections, then you don't have a building. A building
Speaker 1: cannot stand on its own power unless it has connections,
Speaker 1: unless the things fit together. I've also noticed that when
Speaker 1: you go through a construction site, there's always a lot
Speaker 1: of other stuff laying around on the ground, spare parts,
Speaker 1: there's spare pieces of wood that haven't been used, or
Speaker 1: spare pieces of pipe. And what I've noticed is that
Speaker 1: you can be a pipe or a piece of wood
Speaker 1: in a building, but not necessarily belong to the building.
Speaker 1: You don't belong to the building until you're connected to it.
Speaker 1: That's the way some of you are. You're in saddleback family,
Speaker 1: but you don't belong to saddle back family because you've
Speaker 1: never taken the time to get connected, to make a
Speaker 1: commitment to say, I want to be belong here. I
Speaker 1: want this to be I want to be more than
Speaker 1: a tender. I want to be a member. I want
Speaker 1: to belong I want to be connected. I don't want
Speaker 1: to just be a spectator. I want to be a participator,
Speaker 1: and I want to be connected. Now, why did God
Speaker 1: choose a temple as one of the illustrations of what
Speaker 1: it's like to be in his family in the church,
Speaker 1: Because in a building, all of the connected parts support
Speaker 1: each other. Now, this is the second benefit that you
Speaker 1: get in being a part of the family of God
Speaker 1: in God's temple. I'm supported by others. I'm not out
Speaker 1: there on my own. I'm not a lone ranger. I'm
Speaker 1: not there by myself in a strong structure of a building,
Speaker 1: we support and we hold each other up. In a building,
Speaker 1: all connected parts hold each other together. And you know what,
Speaker 1: there's going to be some times in your life when
Speaker 1: you need other people to hold you together. You're going
Speaker 1: to need them to hold you together because you're falling apart.
Speaker 1: And if you're not in the building of God, the
Speaker 1: Temple of God, the Family of God, the Church of God,
Speaker 1: and you're not connected, you're disconnected from the Temple of God,
Speaker 1: nothing's going to hold you together, and you're going to
Speaker 1: fall apart. The Bible says in Ephesians two, in Christ,
Speaker 1: the whole body, the whole building, is joined together and
Speaker 1: rises to become a holy temple in the Lord and
Speaker 1: in Him Jesus, You too are being built together to
Speaker 1: become a dwelling in which God lives by his spirit.
Speaker 1: So together we all together form the Family of God,
Speaker 1: and we form the Temple of God.
Speaker 2: What is a temple God? Well? In a building?
Speaker 1: A disconnected frame has no support, it has no stability,
Speaker 1: and you need it. This is the second great need
Speaker 1: in your life. You need identity and you need stability.
Speaker 1: You need to be a part of a family to
Speaker 1: understand your identity, and you need to be a part
Speaker 1: of God's temple to get the stability where we support
Speaker 1: and we connect it to each other. You weren't meant
Speaker 1: to go through life disconnected.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: This week and my grandkids came over and we were
Speaker 1: playing in the garage, playing legos because I got one
Speaker 1: of the largest collections of legos in southern California, and
Speaker 1: all my grandkids they like to play legos. You know,
Speaker 1: there's only one purpose for legos. They're designed to connect.
Speaker 1: If you don't connect the lego, it's worthless. Now, if
Speaker 1: you connect legos together, you can build all kinds of
Speaker 1: really cool stuff. But if you never connect them to
Speaker 1: each other, they're worthless. It just a pile up, big mess,
Speaker 1: is what it is. You are God's lego. If you're
Speaker 1: a believer in Christ, you're God's lego, and you were
Speaker 1: designed for connection, and you were meant to be not
Speaker 1: just in the family of God, but in the Temple
Speaker 1: of God, in the building of God, where we connect
Speaker 1: to each other. Romans one twelve says it like this,
Speaker 1: I want us to help each other with the faith
Speaker 1: we have. Your faith will help me, and my faith
Speaker 1: will help you. This is what we call the mutuality
Speaker 1: of the body, of the building of the family.
Speaker 2: And why is this important?
Speaker 1: Why is it important for me to have support, and
Speaker 1: why is it important for me to have stability in life?
Speaker 1: Because the number one epidemic in our society today, in
Speaker 1: my opinion, is not the financial crisis. The biggest epidemic
Speaker 1: in our society is loneliness. As somebody who talks to
Speaker 1: hundreds and even thousands of people, a lot of lonely
Speaker 1: people in this world, and they feel alone and they
Speaker 1: feel disconnected. It's very interesting. We have more technology for
Speaker 1: connection than ever in history, and yet people feel more disconnected,
Speaker 1: particularly teenagers.
Speaker 2: And particularly young adults.
Speaker 1: Now, the third description of the church in scripture is
Speaker 1: that of a body. And you've heard this one before.
Speaker 1: The Bible calls the church the body of Christ. Look
Speaker 1: on the screen at this verse. The Bible says in
Speaker 1: one Corinthians twelve twenty seven. Now you talking about Christians,
Speaker 1: you are the body of Christ, and each one of
Speaker 1: you is a part of it.
Speaker 2: Now what is this illustration? This metaphor mean?
Speaker 1: Well, we're different parts, but we're all connected and together
Speaker 1: we complete the body, and we accomplish together what we could.
Speaker 2: Never do on our own.
Speaker 1: And when we do that, all of a sudden we
Speaker 1: find our place, We find our spot, we find our niche,
Speaker 1: we find now how we matter, We find our unique shape,
Speaker 1: our our talents. And you're not going to find this
Speaker 1: anywhere else except in the church, where you find how
Speaker 1: to use your spiritual gifts, the gifts that God has
Speaker 1: given you. And so the third benefit of belonging to
Speaker 1: a church family is this. In Christ's body, I discover
Speaker 1: my unique value. I discover my unique value. This is
Speaker 1: your capacity. First I learn my identity in God's family,
Speaker 1: and I get stability in God's temple. But I learn
Speaker 1: my capacity in Christ's body. I discover my unique value.
Speaker 1: Romans chapter twelve, four and five says this, Just as
Speaker 1: there are many parts to our bodies, so it is
Speaker 1: with Christ's body. We are all parts of it, and
Speaker 1: it takes every one of us to make it complete,
Speaker 1: for we each have different ways to do. So we
Speaker 1: belong to each other, and each of us needs all
Speaker 1: the others. Now, that's a very important passage. It says
Speaker 1: four or five things. At first, it says that the
Speaker 1: body of Christ, the Church is made up of many parts,
Speaker 1: we're all different. You look around here, nobody's like you,
Speaker 1: nobody looks like you, nobody smells like you. We're all different.
Speaker 1: We're all God designed us that way. God loves variety.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine if God had just said, let's only
Speaker 1: make three kinds of human beings. God made us all different,
Speaker 1: and we're all many parts. And notice it says everybody's needed.
Speaker 1: Look at that verse, we're all needed to make the
Speaker 1: body complete. Nobody can say, well, I'm not important, No,
Speaker 1: you're needed. You know, if you have a jigsaw puzzle
Speaker 1: and one piece is missing, what's the part you miss?
Speaker 1: The one that's missing, the one piece that's missing.
Speaker 2: So what you notice? First? It says we all have
Speaker 2: a work to do.
Speaker 1: We all have different roles, different ministries, And if all
Speaker 1: of the parts did the same thing, it'd be nonsense.
Speaker 1: Like if every part in your body was ear it'd
Speaker 1: be kind of silly. So we all have different roles
Speaker 1: to play and different things to do, but we belong
Speaker 1: to each other. Notice it says there, so we belong
Speaker 1: to each other. Underline or circle that I was going
Speaker 1: to have you turn to the person next to you
Speaker 1: and say you belong to me.
Speaker 2: But that might result in a marriage proposal. So we belong.
Speaker 1: But it's true if you're in the family of God,
Speaker 1: if you're in the body of Christ, if you're in
Speaker 1: the Temple of God, we belong to each other. We
Speaker 1: don't just belong to God. We belong to each other.
Speaker 1: And it says each of us needs all the others.
Speaker 1: In other words, what good is an eyeball if it's
Speaker 1: detached from the body?
Speaker 2: Nothing?
Speaker 1: An eyeball out here on its own is worthless. It
Speaker 1: can't see anything. It can only see as it is
Speaker 1: attached to the body. What good is an ear if
Speaker 1: your ear is detached and sitting out over there, no,
Speaker 1: none at all, has no value at all. It can't
Speaker 1: hear unless it's attached to the body. What good is
Speaker 1: your hand if it's cut off and put on the show?
Speaker 1: It just withers and dies. You cannot be what God
Speaker 1: made you to be without a church family, without being
Speaker 1: connected to Christ's body, you can't do it. You can't
Speaker 1: fulfill your purpose in life on your own. You have
Speaker 1: to be connected. You have to belong, You have to
Speaker 1: be an association. You have to be attached to some
Speaker 1: local body of Christ.
Speaker 3: Hey, would you like to go deeper with Pastor Rick
Speaker 3: to discover God's purpose in your life. Well now you
Speaker 3: can with the video based study kit called What on
Speaker 3: Earth Am I here For? This life changing study is
Speaker 3: taught by Rick and includes a workbook and six video sessions.
Speaker 2: As you go through.
Speaker 3: These lessons, you'll embark on a journey of discovery to
Speaker 3: answer life's most fundamental question, what on Earth am I
Speaker 3: here for? You'll learn that it's only in God that
Speaker 3: we discover our origin, our identity, our meaning, our purpose,
Speaker 3: our significance, and our destiny.
Speaker 2: Every other path.
Speaker 3: Leads to a dead end. This resource is packed with
Speaker 3: biblically centered principles and is perfect for personal or small
Speaker 3: group study. So be sure to request this study kit
Speaker 3: when you give a gift to Daily Hope to help
Speaker 3: share the hope of Jesus with a hurting world. We'll
Speaker 3: send it to you today as our way of saying thanks.