Is Your View of Christ’s Mission for You Fuzzy?

Episode Summary. George Barna’s Millennials in America report observes, “One of the most attention-grabbing attributes revealed in this research regarding the Millennial way of life is their widespread desire to identify a purpose for living. Three out of four Millennials are still searching for their purpose in life.” This evidence that Millennials want a life of purpose reminds me of the popularity of Rick Warren’s book, The Purpose Driven Life, which has been translated into 137 languages and sold more than 50 million copies. There is weighty evidence that human beings are designed to want a purpose for living. This episode series is designed to help the men listening accomplish exactly what so many Millennials—and so many humans in general want: experience the satisfaction and joy of knowing that they are accomplishing the purpose for which they were created. Our goal for this episode is to frame a biblical, one-sentence description of the mission that Christ assigned us—so that we can stay focused upon it.

For Further Prayerful Thought. (This week’s discussion questions are mentioned in the podcast but are repeated here.)

1. Rightness in my relationship with God: How am I doing at loving my Lord?  “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind” (Lk 10:27).
2. Rightness in my heart attitudes: How am I doing with Peter’s exhortation? For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love.
3. Rightness in the world around me. What areas of brokenness around me has God put on my heart? Individuals? Worldview issues? What opportunities do I have to speak truth into such brokenness? What opportunity do I have to exercise compassion towards the broken? How might I become better equipped to winsomely articulate the biblical worldview? (I highly recommend the Colson Center’s What Would You Say short videos).

Resources Used in Today’s Podcast

Discipling Men’s Hearts Through Kingdom Theology, Gary Yagel (Doctoral Dissertation for RTS Orlando)

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