Rev Bill

Purpose 5 in Rick Warren’s The Purpose Driven Life is:

You Were Made For A Mission

Warren continues this theme in day 38 — Becoming A World - Class Christian. Beginning with the sentence: The Great Commission is your commission Warren stresses that you are called to show God’s love to the world.

Warren outlines 4 steps that can help you become what he calls a “world - class Christian” — a Christian committed to go into the world with God’s message and love.

1. You have to quit thinking about yourself and begin thinking about others.
You can pray that God will help you have a sense of how you can reach out to others. If you pray for a sense of how you can reach out to others, God will bless you with it.

2. You need to think globally.
Pray that God will help you have a heart for those who need to know Him throughout the world. Begin looking at the world with what Warren calls “Great Commission eyes” — seeing how you can help take the gospel to all the world.
Warren says that the best way to do this is to get involved in a mission trip to a foreign country. This would certainly help you see things in a more global light.

3. You need to quit thinking about the “here and now” and start thinking about eternity.
God wants you to think about things such as making sure others know about His love more than you think about things that are not really as important.

4. You need to stop making excuses and start looking for ways to reach others.
Instead of saying: “I can’t reach others for Christ”, look at all the ways you can do it!

God wants you to be a world - class Christian — going into the world to show His love and saving power!

Lord — Help me to see the importance of Your mission in the world, and help me to have the desire to take part in it. In Jesus’ name I pray, Amen.

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