Summary: In recent years we have seen the rise of a new industry called life coaching. A life coach asks you what is most important in your life and helps you shape a personal mission statement around your goals. Jesus assigned his followers their personal life mission statement. He said, “Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness.” But to be honest, without some good theology and a little historical background, the concept of the kingdom of God is way too fuzzy and nebulous for anyone to base his life direction upon, much less translate into a life mission statement. This episode digs into Jesus’ teaching about the nature of the kingdom of God to help us sharpen our picture of what it actually looks like to seek first that kingdom and God’s righteousness.

For Further Prayerful Thought:

Do you have a personal mission statement for your life?
If you were trying to explain to a young believer that he needed to understand the concept of the kingdom of God to understand his mission what would you say?
Which Christ-like character quality from the beatitudes have you been growing in lately. Which one has been the biggest struggle?
Summarize what you think Jesus was trying to teach his followers about being leaven, salt, and light?

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