Andy Stanley - Made For More

January 24, 2026 | 28:29

Your Move with Andy Stanley — to help people make better decisions and live with fewer regrets.

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Your Move with Andy Stanley | Andy Stanley - Made For More | January 24, 2026

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Andy stanley: hi, everybody.
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Welcome to "your move," where we help you make better decisions
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And live with fewer regrets.
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I'm andy stanley, and i'll be your guide.
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Today, i'm sharing a piece of advice that you won't be glad
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You took initially, but you will be glad you took eventually.
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So, if you're up for a challenge and you're ready to flip the
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Script from "i wish i had" to "i'm glad i did," stick around.
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[music]
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Andy: so, as i remind you every single year at this time, this
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Is the year where we're all a little bit focused on.
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It should be focused on self-improvement, where we're
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Confronted with where we are and where we aren't, and where
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We plan to be by this time this year as we started the new year.
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Because last year we set some goals, and set some resolutions,
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And we were committed for about three days or three weeks or
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Three months.
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But anyway, so here we are thinking about some of those
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Same little things, and that's good.
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This is the time of year where we're kind of confronted with
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Where we are and where we aren't with our goals, what we
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Need to start and stop, what we need to do more of and less of,
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What we need to eat more of and eat less of.
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It's the season where we ask, and, again, this is a
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Good thing.
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I'm not complaining.
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This is the season where we ask, "what should i do about me?
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And how can i make myself better?
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How can i make myself stronger?
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How can i make myself healthier?
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How can i make my relationships better?
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How can i make myself smarter, wealthier, how do i make myself
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More successfuller?
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How do i make myself less lonely?
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How do i make my relationships richer?"
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And you should address all of those things, whatever those
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Might be.
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You should get that degree, you should break that habit, you
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Should get out of debt, you should get out of
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That relationship.
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You should go ahead and buy a ring and propose and, you know,
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Quit messing around.
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So, this is the year to do all of those things.
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Less work, maybe more family, or maybe more work and a little
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Less netflix.
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Okay, you gotta figure that out.
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In addition to the question, "what should i do about me or
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What should you do about you?"
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Here's something to consider for the next few minutes, maybe for
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The next few weeks.
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And maybe you're gonna want to write this question down and put
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It on your mirror because it may take a while for you to figure
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This one out, and it's so important.
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And the question is, "what was i made for?"
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What was i made for?
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Now, to get it started, everybody knows what all of
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These things were made for.
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These were made not to take on a commercial flight.
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Did you know that?
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Have you seen the display at hartsfield?
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They move it around from time to time, but all the things people
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Have tried to take on the commercial flights, weed eaters,
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Literally chainsaws, all kind of just--leaf blowers.
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Why would you take a leaf blower on a--
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Anyway, so, these are things not to be taken on a
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Commercial flight.
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But, specifically, the reason they're up here, all of these
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Things were designed or created with a specific task in mind.
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They solve a problem, they address a need, they help
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Something get done better and quicker than otherwise it would
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Be done.
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So, they were all created for something very, very specific.
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But i really want you to think about this for the next
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Few minutes.
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What about you?
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What were you made for?
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And here's the thing, this isn't--it's hard to get there
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Personally, but it's not so crazy when you think about other
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People you know.
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Because you know some people who have discovered what they are
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Made for.
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You know people who know.
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And you've seen them in their zone, and when they're in their
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Zone doing what they're made for, you have thought, or you
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Might have even said, "wow, that, that's exactly what they
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Were made for.
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They are doing their thing.
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That's what they were created to do."
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But here's the thing, when you find that thing, and it may be
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More than one thing, and some of you know what it is, and some of
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You don't, some of you, you know, you gotta figure this out.
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When you're doing that thing that you were made for, you
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Experience this deep, deep sense of satisfaction.
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There's energy.
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There's a sense of purpose.
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You're not tired at the end.
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Other people would be tired, or they're shocked, or they're
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Amazed, and you're--it's like, it gives you energy, it gives
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You life.
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And here's the reason, one of the reasons, i'm talking
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About it.
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The more of that that you do, whatever that is, the more of
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That that you do, whatever that is, you should look for
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Opportunities to do even more, because it is critical to your
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Well-being, because of the way you were designed.
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It's critical to your happiness.
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In fact, you probably know that.
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It may be critical to your health, it may be critical to
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Your mental health that you figure out what you were made
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For and make sure you're giving enough of your time and your
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Energy to that because it gives you energy and it allows you to
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Experience time in a way that you don't experience any
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Other way.
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And when you don't give attention to it, or you don't
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Give enough attention to it, you pay for that, and i pay for
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That, because of the way we were created, the way we
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Were designed.
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We're discontent, we're frustrated.
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Sometimes there's a residual kind of anger that just sits
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There, we are no fun to be around.
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And then you know what we do? we start looking for a culprit.
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It's my boss. it's my job.
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It's my career. it's where we live.
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It's the weather. it's my spouse.
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It's my lack of a spouse. it's my fiance.
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It's the world.
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It's, you know, it's--there's something we got to find
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Somebody to blame for the fact that there's a deep sense
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Of discontent.
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Because we're not doing enough of what we were designed and
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Created to do.
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So, one more time.
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What were you made for?
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And do you know, do you have a suspicion of what it is?
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So, to tease it out a little bit more i'm gonna give you a clue.
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What you were made for is something you actually do.
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It's something that doesn't end with you, and it doesn't
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Exclusively benefit you.
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Otherwise, you're like the dead sea.
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It's just all pouring in, and nothing's going out.
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That's not what it is.
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It's something you do, it's something that doesn't
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Exclusively benefit you.
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Author daniel pink in his book that he wrote many years ago,
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"drive," our leadership team went through it years ago.
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He summarizes it this way, and maybe this will help give you
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Some handles as you think about this.
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He breaks it down into three words.
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He says, "it's a combination of three things.
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One is autonomy, which is the desire, you know, for us to
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Control or impact or really just direct our own lives.
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We all want some sense of autonomy.
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It includes mastery, where there's an urge to make
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Progress or get better at something specific and something
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That matters.
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So, there's mastery.
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You're kind of owning this and getting better at this.
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And then, on the other side, which is similar to mastery,
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Is purpose.
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There's a yearning to do.
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There's a yearning to do what we do in the service of something
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Larger than ourselves.
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Again, there's an outflow.
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It's not just for the benefit of you.
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So, when you can find that something, where all three of
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These come together.
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There's a sense of autonomy, you get to control it.
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A sense of mastery, you're getting better and better at it.
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And a sense of purpose, there's an outflow,
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It benefits somebody other than you.
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This is gold, this is health, this is peace.
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There's a sense of happiness there, when you can figure out
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How to merge these three.
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And some of you have found a way to do this in your work, you
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Spend most of your waking hours in an arena or in an
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Environment, where you're doing these things, and good for you,
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That's kind of rare.
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But for some of you, it may be a hobby, it may be a pastime, it
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May be substituting somewhere, it may be coaching, it may be
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Mentoring, it may be something that you volunteer doing or
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Something you do for your community.
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But whatever it is, it is energizing, and it
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Is life-giving.
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So, let me say this.
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If you're not a religious person, you're not a christian
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Person, you know, you put that in the rearview mirror, but you
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Know somebody made you come to church today, or they make you
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Watch this because you're staying with them, you know,
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Whatever it is, i'm so glad you are.
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I just wanna say this to you, this year i encourage you to
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Discover what you were made for.
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And perhaps you already know, and if you already know, please,
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This year, don't neglect that.
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And here's why i don't want you to neglect it.
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It's not just about you.
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Because the world needs and your family needs and the
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Community needs you to be engaged with the thing you were
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Created to do.
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Because it makes your community and it makes your family better,
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It makes the world better, and it makes you better.
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So, don't neglect it.
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The world needs what you have to contribute.
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So, find a way this year to lean into that as much as possible.
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Now, for those of us who consider ourselves christians,
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Or maybe better, those of us who are jesus followers, as i said
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Earlier, there's another layer to this.
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There's an additional layer to this.
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And both jesus and the apostle paul talk about this.
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So, for the next few minutes, i want to unpack something the
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Apostle paul said that relates to this, and there's a few
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Verses i'm going to go through, and then i'm going to go back to
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The verses before those verses, so i'll try to make this clear
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And try to make this simple.
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But this is so extraordinarily, extraordinarily important.
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So, the apostle paul writes a letter to christians living in
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1st century ephesus.
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Very cosmopolitan town, mostly gentiles, so he's not writing to
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A religious audience in terms of judaism or pagan.
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He's writing specifically to christians, these gentiles who
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Have embraced jesus as their savior, as their king, so
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They're called christians.
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It's--there's so much conflict.
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It's all kinds of tension.
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So, he writes them this letter to encourage them and to sort of
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Tease out what it looks like to be a christian in a culture that
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Was in those days pretty much anti-christian.
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And here's what he says to them,
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Here's what he says to all of us.
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He says, "for--" we're jumping in in the middle.
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He says, "for we," those of us who are jesus followers,
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"we are god's handiwork."
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Poiema is the little greek term.
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He's not referring to the fact that god made us physically,
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That we're made in the image of god or our physical bodies.
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This isn't about physical body.
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This is something else.
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This little--this term, in some other translations, it says
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Workmanship, "we are his workmanship," it refers to
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Something that was created.
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It refers to something that was crafted, something very, very
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Specific for a specific, and we're gonna see in a minute,
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A specific reason, like all these devices here.
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He goes on, he says this, "for we are god's handiwork," or
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God's workmanship, that god crafted us, "in christ jesus."
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Pause.
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Now, in the version of christianity that i was raised
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In, and i'm so grateful for my heritage, and i'm so grateful
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For being raised in church, and i've always loved church, never
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Left, never rebelled, none of that.
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But the version of christianity i was raised in, if i didn't
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Know what the rest of this verse said and i had to guess, i would
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Guess that this verse would end up, or he would finish out the
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Thought this way, "for we are god's handiwork created in
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Christ jesus to go to heaven when we die."
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Because that was kind of the synopsis of christianity that i
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Was raised in.
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That you're a sinner, you've fallen short of the glory of
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God, you ask jesus to be your savior.
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When jesus becomes your savior, you have a relationship with
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God, and when you die, you go to heaven.
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And that's kind of the whole ball of wax.
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In the meantime, do the best you can and try not to get in too
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Much trouble.
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But if you do, it's okay because god forgives you.
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All of which is true.
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But what he actually wrote, what actually, and the way he
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Finishes this sentence, the reason it was neglected,
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I think, in the kind of church i was raised in, and maybe the
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Kind of religion or church you were raised in, the reason it
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Got neglected was because of the two verses that came before
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This verse.
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And the two verses that came before this verse got
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Massive airplay.
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I mean, they were like central.
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In fact, when i read them to you, many of you can quote these
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Verses or parts of these verses, you've heard it.
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And they should get massive airplay because they're so
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Extraordinarily important.
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But in the world i grew up in, they overshadowed what paul said
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Next that we're going to tease out in just a minute.
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So, here are the verses that precede these verses.
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Paul writes this, "for it is by grace you have been saved,
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Through faith."
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And we're like, "yay, god," because this means the reason we
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Can have a relationship with god is god has given it to us.
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It is a free gift.
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"for it is by grace you have been saved, through faith."
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And this, this grace and this salvation, this right
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Relationship with god, this was the best part,
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Is not from yourselves.
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In other words, you didn't manufacture this.
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You didn't work your way into it.
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You didn't do any way to earn it or deserve it.
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It "is not from yourselves.
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It is a gift."
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The salvation, a right relationship with god is
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A gift that god gives.
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"not by--" and paul wants to make sure we got it clear.
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"not by works," because that way, nobody can boast.
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In other words, nobody gets to heaven and goes, "well, yeah, of
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Course i'm here.
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I mean, did you watch my life?
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I mean, like i was amazing.
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I don't know why you're here, but i know why i'm here,
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Because compared to," you know?
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It's like, no, no.
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Paul says, "this salvation, the opportunity to have a
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Relationship with god, is a gift."
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Consequently, it levels the playing field.
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No matter how good or how bad you are, everybody gets in the
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Same way.
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It's an invitation by god's grace and god's mercy.
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And as christians, we celebrate that in our songs, we celebrate
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That in our sermons.
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It's what we teach our children that if you'll put your faith in
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Jesus, god is giving you a right relationship with himself.
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It is a gift.
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You can't earn it.
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You can't behave your way into it.
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Better news, you can't sin your way out of it.
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You don't deserve it to get in, you don't sin to get out.
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It is a gift.
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So, of course, this big idea that the apostle paul, you know,
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Scripts out so eloquently, of course this gets massive airplay
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With christians, and it should.
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But in the tradition i was raised in, the most, if one of
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The most, important parts of this statement was the
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Punctuation, the period, boom.
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Period as in stop there.
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Good news, we don't work our way to heaven.
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It's a gift.
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The end! i'm in!
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Have a nice day.
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And, honestly, we kind of stopped reading right there.
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But paul didn't stop writing right there.
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Because stop, and the problem is stopping there, stopping there,
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Actually fueled, or fuels, and for some of you, you wrestle
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With this, and one of the things that we talk about all the time
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Here, stopping there fuels a very hyper-vertical version of
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Christianity, "me and god are good, and if me and god are
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Good, that's all that matters.
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I'll try to be a good person.
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But me and god are good.
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That's all that matters."
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But this wasn't the end.
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Besides, in the greek language, there's no punctuation.
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Not only does it not end with a period, it gets transitioned
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Into the next verb--into the next two verses by
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A conjunction.
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Remember conjunctions that are connecting words.
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So, he says, "the good news is, you're saved by grace,
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Through faith.
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It's not of yourself, you don't work your way into a good
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Relationship with god.
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It is a gift."
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Then he says, "for," because, "hey, now that we got that all
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Cleared up, let me tell you the purpose for all that.
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It's not just so that your eternity is secure, there's
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Something to do."
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And then he gives us the application, which brings us to
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The verse that we started with, "for we," all of us christians,
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Jesus followers, "we are god's handiwork," his workmanship.
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We are something that god has crafted and put together.
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And not only are we crafted and put together, we are put
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Together in christ jesus.
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You ready for this?
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Not just for heaven when we die, but something for the here
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And now.
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Here it is.
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You're created in christ jesus to do.
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That you and i were saved by the grace of god in order to
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Do something.
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Here's what i want you to hear.
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And the to do part is something related to god's grace and mercy
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Given to us in salvation.
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This is why he talks about it being in christ jesus, in christ
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Jesus's covenant language, that you're in a new covenant with
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God through the blood of christ.
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And consequently, you are now by nature of the fact that you're
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Part of god's family, we are on a mission with god to do
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Something in his kingdom on planet earth during
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Our lifetime.
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And as we're gonna discover, it's something specific, and
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It's related to the salvation by grace.
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He teases it out.
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He says, "we're created in christ jesus to do good works."
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Not be a good person.
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He's already covered that earlier in the book.
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This isn't just about being a good person, good moral person,
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Pay my taxes, stay out of trouble, don't say anything bad,
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You know, it's more than that.
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This is the serve one another, submit to one another, carry one
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Another's burdens, go the extra mile.
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It's that kind of stuff.
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It's the kind of thing that when we get it right as a church,
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It sets us apart.
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Not better than, it sets us apart.
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Because just as christ jesus himself said, "i did not come to
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Be served, but to serve and to give my life a ransom for many,"
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When we find a way to collectively and individually
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Give our lives away in the name of jesus, that is kingdom of god
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Good now, and that's what we've all, every one of us, has been
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Called to.
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Because when we are in christ, we are doing jesus christ good
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On planet earth.
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Because the good news of great joy as we celebrate every
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Christmas was for all people.
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That's why jesus said, "i want you to go into every nation, and
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I want you to teach them, specifically, what i have
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Taught you.
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And i want you to live your life in such a way that your light
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Shines in such a way, your life shines in such a way that people
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Don't just chalk you off as, oh, they're just really
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Good citizens."
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He's like, "no, you were created in christ jesus for something
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Very specific that connects your life and your time to god's work
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In his kingdom, in your lifetime on earth."
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Now, real quick.
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If you're not a religious person, you're not a christian
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Person, again, you've met some of us, and i've been guilty
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Of this.
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You have met some of us christians who seemed like we
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Were way more focused on judging others than doing for others.
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And i am so sorry, and i just want to go on record as saying
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To reflect our king well, that, that is not what we were saved
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For, and that is not what we were created for, and that is
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Not what we were made for.
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We were called and we were made to live our lives in such a way
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That people would sit up straight and take notice and
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Say, "i'm not sure i believe all that, but, wow, and thank you,
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And we are better off because you're in the community, and we
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Are better off because you're in our family, and we're better off
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That we get to work with someone like you, and we're better off
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Because we get to know someone like you.
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And i don't understand that level of generosity, and i don't
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Understand that kind of compassion, and i still don't
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Get how you forgave her so quickly and you forgave him so
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Quickly, but wow."
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And if that has not been your response to the christians you
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Know, i've just--again, i've been there, it's because they
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Weren't and aren't doing it right.
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But when you open the pages of scripture, that's why i say this
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To you all the time, when you follow jesus, when you follow
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Jesus through the gospels, and you see him live this out, and
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Then say to you and say to me, in our generation, "i want you
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To follow me.
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I want you to follow me because you believe in me, but y'all,
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I want you to follow my example.
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If you want to know what god the father is like," jesus would
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Say, "watch me."
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And now, i want you to figure out how to live your life in
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Such a way that you find what you were made for and how it
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Connects to the kingdom of god so that people understand what
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God is like by watching you.
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And that can happen.
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In fact, chances are, if you're a christian, you're a christian
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Because you met some people who understood this and were
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Doing this.
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Then paul goes on and he says, "hey, regarding these good works
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That, you know, you were created to do," he says this, "we are
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God's workmanship," handiwork, "created in christ jesus to do
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Good works, which god," and this is amazing, "which god prepared
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In advance," or another translation says that, "god
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Prepared beforehand for us to do."
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Now, this is what i want you to think about for a minute.
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What if this is true?
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Just imagine for a moment.
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What if you really are god's handiwork, god's workmanship?
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What if that is part of your purpose?
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What if that is part of the purpose of your life and you
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Haven't found it yet?
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Because if you haven't found it yet, that means there's
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Something in this world that would make your life feel more
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Purposeful, or to use another word, more meaningful.
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And do you know what makes a life meaningful?
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When it becomes a means to an end that isn't the thing.
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When you find a way to become a means to a kingdom of god end,
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You experience meaning and purpose.
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And paul says all of us have that somewhere, and if we don't
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Know what it is, we gotta find it.
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What if there's something you're supposed to do?
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You've got to find it, then you've got to do it, right?
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Because you were made for more.
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Come on, you were made for more than simply being a law-abiding,
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Polite christian citizen.
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That is not enough.
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That is average, that's what everybody does.
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And not only are you missing out, but the world is missing
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Out, and the church is missing out because you were made for so
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Much more.
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So, as we begin this year together, i just wanna throw
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That question out for you to think about until you come up
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With an answer.
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You are the recipient of some people who were made for more
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And figured out what their more was.
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And i want you to participate as well, not simply for this
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Generation, but maybe, in some cases, for the sake of the
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Next generation.
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If you haven't found your more, your role, your assignment in
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The kingdom of god, i want you to start looking.
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I want you to try some things.
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And if that isn't your thing, and it's like, "well that's not
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Really my thing," then you just, you keep looking.
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If somebody asks you to do something, well, just do it.
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If somebody asks you to participate in something, just
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Like, "well, i don't know if that's my thing, but okay,
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I'll try it."
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Volunteer at something, just try it.
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That may be your it or that might lead to your it.
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Quick story from my life.
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So, this is kind of how i ended up doing what i'm doing now.
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I was in college, i think i was a sophomore, i can't
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Remember exactly.
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I was working at a plaque company.
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I was setting type, which i won't even try to explain that
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To you because it is so archaic, setting type to print on
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Plaques, okay, that was my job.
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And it was a good, you know, good-paying job, not something
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I wanted to do the rest of my life.
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You know, i was living at home in the basement, you know, going
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To georgia state university, stayed at home, you know, sort
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Of paying my own way to some extent, and life was good.
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And a family in our church came to me and said, "andy, we have
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Some friends that live in east point."
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Now, if you don't live in the atlanta area, this isn't going
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To make a lot of sense to say.
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Where i lived at the time was nowhere close to east point.
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It was almost all the way across town.
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They said, "they want to host some high school students in
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Their home and start a bible study, and they're looking for
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Somebody to lead it, and we thought that might be something
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You would want to do."
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And i thought, "do you know me?
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I don't think that's something you--
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Anyway, so they asked me, and i couldn't quite
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Get that out of my head.
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And i'm like, "i don't know this family, i don't know that i've
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Ever been to east point, i don't know any of these kids.
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Count me in."
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I mean, really, it was that weird.
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And i did know this, i could play the guitar and i thought,
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"well, at least i can sing some camp songs, and then we'll tell
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Some bible stories."
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I mean, i don't know where this is gonna go.
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So, i said yes.
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So, i started going, i can't remember if it was monday or
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Tuesday night, and i would drive way out there and get my guitar,
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Sit on the piano stool and face the kids, there were about
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20 kids.
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And they were 25, and then there were 30 and then there were 40,
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And then there were 50.
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And i would sing, we would sing, and i would get my bible out.
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So, at some point, this went on for months, there was a really,
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Really, really, really slow news day in east point, apparently,
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Because the newspaper heard about our bible study and
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Decided to send a journalist over to report on our
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Bible study.
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I mean, this was a long time ago.
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Anyway, not much going on.
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And they took a picture and they put it in the newspaper.
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So, here it is.
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Here i am.
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There's a--i know, i was so cute.
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Here's the piano bench.
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There's my bible, there's my guitar, there's all these kids
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Crammed into a living room, and it has a little headline down
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There that tells some names.
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My sister was actually there that night.
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And i would finish and it was, i don't know, it was just--i'd
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Just never done anything like this before.
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And i started looking forward to it.
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And then something amazing happened.
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Months into this, we couldn't meet in this home, and we had to
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Meet in a different home.
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So, i drove to the other home, all the, you know, the kids all
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Showed up, did the same thing, and we're--afterwards we had
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Some snacks.
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So, i'm standing in the kitchen with the woman whose home we
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Were in.
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Her name is helen hurd.
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And i'm standing in the kitchen and helen, i'd never met helen
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Before, she'd never been to this bible study before and she let
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All these kids come into her home.
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That's kingdom of god good right there.
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And she said, "andy."
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I remember, i'm standing right in front of her refrigerator.
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She said, "andy," she said--
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Sorry, she said, "you have a gift for communicating."
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Nobody ever told me that before.
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And then she said this, she said, "those kids are listening
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To you."
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And then she said something, okay, this isn't the quote.
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Those are almost exact quotes.
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It's something along the lines of, "you need to keep
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Doing this."
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And i said, "thank you."
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And that was kind of like the moment for me.
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Then, fast forward a whole bunch of years.
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Okay, that's college, then i go to graduate school for four
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Years, then i work for my dad for ten years, then we start
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North point community church.
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So, a whole bunch of years, a whole bunch of life goes by.
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One sunday morning i'm sitting right here in the front row.
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I'm at north point community church today.
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A tap on the shoulder, i turn around, and she's--a lady, an
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Older lady now, says, "do you remember me?
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I'm helen hurd."
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And i'm like, "oh, my goodness," and this is what came out of
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My mouth.
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I said, "you're the one who called me into ministry."
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And she started kind of laughing.
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I said, "helen," i said "no," and i recounted
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This conversation.
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I just--and she said, "i remember you being in my home,
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And i remember you teaching the bible study, and thinking you
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Did a good job.
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I don't remember that conversation."
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I said, "i will never forget it."
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So, my point is this.
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If someone from east point calls you.
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My point is, you don't know.
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I mean, we all think we know, but you don't know.
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And i don't want you to miss it.
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I don't want your community to miss it.
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I don't want our church to miss you.
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I don't want the kingdom of god to have empty seats because
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There were things that a bunch of us were created to do,
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Specific to do different than other people, but similar to
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Other people.
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And somebody didn't show up, according to paul, show up for
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Their assignment in the kingdom of god to fill a role, to make
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An impact where there's some autonomy, and there's over time
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Some mastery, because i got better at this, right?
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And then, there's impact, and there's purpose.
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And, of course, we would love to help.
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In fact, your church, wherever you attend church, you're here
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With me, your church is the best place to start, because the
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Church really is the epicenter.
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It's the hub of god's activity on planet earth, because jesus
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Said you're--"i'm gonna create my movement, my assembly.
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And it's gonna go forever, and it's gonna be my body.
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You're gonna be my hands and my feet."
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So, all that to say this, would you at least try some things?
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Would you be willing to just say yes to some invitations?
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But whatever you do, whatever you do, don't settle for simply
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Being good.
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You're already good.
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Look at you all light up in church and being so polite.
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You're daydreaming, but you're facing forward, you know, you're
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Such good people, okay?
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Would you not settle for just being good?
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Because you were made for more than that.
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More is what we were made for.
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Andy: hey, everybody. thank you so much for tuning in.
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Because we're convinced following jesus will make your
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Life better and make the world a better place.
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And now it's your move.
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Andy Stanley - Made For More

January 24, 2026 | 28:29

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