The Purpose Driven Life (Day 36-42)

(Chapter 36) According to the Bible, why is your mission so important?

• To continue Jesus’ mission on earth and give your life meaning

• A wonderful privilege and has eternal significance

• The greatest thing you can do for others when telling them how they can have eternal life

• God’s timetable for history’s conclusion is connected to the completion of your commission

• All of them

(Chapter 36) Why is your mission a wonderful privilege?

• You work with God in the building of your kingdom

• You get two great privileges: working with God and representing him

• You can remember how hopeless it felt to be without Christ

• You know that without Christ people headed for eternal separation from God

(Chapter 36) Why does your mission have eternal significance?

• It impacts others eternal destiny and will last forever

• It connects your job, achievement, goal…

• There is little time left

• We only have our lifetime in which to reach the unbelievers

(Chapter 36) What does it cost to fulfill your mission?

• Abandon your agenda and accept God’s agenda for your life

• Just “tack it on” to all the other things you’d like to do with your life

• No need to yield your rights, expectations, dreams, plans, ambitions to God

• Hand God what you want so He can approve

(Chapter 37) God has given you a Life Message to share. What is that?

• Your testimony (how you began a relationship with Jesus)

• Your life lessons (the most important lessons God has taught you)

• Your godly passions (the issues God shaped you to care about most)

• The Good News (the message of salvation)

• All of them

(Chapter 38) How should your thinking shift to be like a world-class Christian?

• From self-centered to other-centered

• From local to global, “here and now” to eternal

• From excuses to creative ways to fulfill your commission

• All of them

(Chapter 39) A great Christian is the one who keeps five purposes in balance. What are they?

• Love God with all your heart and your neighbor as yourself

• Go and make disciples of all nations and baptize them

• Teach them to do all things God has commanded you

• Worship, fellowship, discipleship, ministry, evangelism

(Chapter 40) Connect the life’s five greatest questions with its answers?

A. What will be the center of my life? 1. discipleship

B. What will be the character of my life? 2. fellowship

C. What will be the contribution of my life? 3. worship

D. What will be the communication of my life? 4. service

E. What will be the community of my life? 5. mission

• A-2, B-1, C-4, D-5, E-3

• A-3, B-5, C-1, D-4, E-2

• A-4, B-1, C-3, D-5, E-2

• A-3, B-1, C-4, D-5, E-2

(Chapter 41) What are steps to eradicating envy?

• Stop comparing yourself to others, Trust God when life seems unfair

• Celebrate God’s goodness to others

• Be grateful for who you are and whatever you have

• All of them

(Chapter 42) What should you remember to break free from the People-pleaser trap?

• Even God can’t please everyone

• I don’t need anyone’s approval to be happy but God

• What seems so important now is only temporary

• God shape me to be me, not somebody else

• All of them